PALESTINE POLICE FORCE 1940s BRITISH MANDATE-ERA RECRUITMENT FILM ISRAEL JERUSALEM TEL AVIV 94574

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This 1940s black and white British recruitment film seeks to generate interest in the Palestine Police Force during the era of the British Mandate for Palestine. A brisk overview of colonialist policing duties emphasizes the diversity of both the region and its unique police force, which mobilized armed radio patrol trucks, horses, camels, and boats to deter crime in a changing environment (TRT: 16:30).
Film begins in progress (main titles missing). Plowing fields in an agricultural area. The city of Tel Aviv the “new all-Jewish city, built in less than 25 years.” Pedestrians, automobiles. A beach with men and women in bathing attire (0:07). Nazareth is shown with less European influence in contrast. Historic architecture. The church bells of Bethlehem. A city skyline. Narration mentions a span of seven miles from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. The Mosque of Omar (0:34). The mosque in closeup. Jerusalem’s city streets. A sign for “Kodak.” Stone city walls. Jerusalem Citadel and the Tower of David (1:22). Street vendors. A man dispenses lemonade from a novel belt device. Elders in religious garb of all faiths: Jews, Arabs, Catholic nuns. “The security of this bewildering variety of people is in the hands of a highly efficient police force” (1:57). A police station with two officers; one British, one Palestinian. A police officer gives directions (2:51). A radio patrol van and an armored tank (3:10). Training recruits. Men in helmets march in helmets with weapons drawn. Self defense, arabic lessons (3:40). Mechanics at work. Recruits rush to vehicles, which roll out. Marching through drill formations at a Mount Scopus depot (4:00). Traffic control training. Classes teach “details of the law.” A car suspected of smuggling illicit goods is inspected in a training session. A secret compartment reveals packets of hashish (5:01). After a hard day's work, a recruit retires to a spartan barracks (6:02). Children play with a doll. A father returns home. A boxing match, cheering spectators. A rugby match. Field hockey. Shot put, high and long jumps in a track and field competition (6:27). An orchestra practice (7:34). Mounted police officers train with horses (7:45). A mounted patrol through the neighborhood of Nazareth. A woman waves goodbye. A patrol commander greets a moctar (8:47). A criminal laboratory tests a blood sample using a microscope. Radio communication operators read announcements, which are received by radio patrol trucks in the desert (9:26). Trucks navigate a soft, sandy terrain (10:30). A camel patrol led by an Arab sergeant (11:08). A trained dog runs through an obstacle course. In another test, the doc picks up a scent, and matches it to a suspect (11:38). Policemen patrol using a boat from Haifa to Akka (12:36). Checking the nets of local fishermen to prevent overfishing (13:17). The Palestine police give a parade celebrating the king’s birthday. Officers are decorated with metals atop a grandstand with British flags. Armored cars on parade (14:02). The parade continues, showing camels and horses of the police force (14:48). A montage review of previous scenes (15:00). End titles: “The End. Recruits, single men, 18 to 25 years of age are required for service in Palestine as British Constables. Further Information may be obtained from the Palestine Police Force” (15:51).
The Mandate for Palestine was a League of Nations mandate for British administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordan, which were conceded by the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I. The British controlled Palestine for almost three decades before the mandate was repealed in 1948.
The Palestine Police Force was established in 1920. In 1944, the Police Mobile Force (PMF) created a fully militarized strike force. By 1947, the force numbered 4,000. When the mandate expired, most officers transferred to other colonial forces in Kenya, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. The Palestine Police Force formed the basis upon which the Israel Police was founded.
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[@borjastick]

My dad was there in the British army from very late 1945 or early 1946 for about two years. They started off in Alexandria, Egypt but were quickly moved up into Palestine. He was based at Netanya for sometime as well. He served in the Royal Irish Fusiliers.

[@PunkKittyWuver]

Embarrassing

[@jaser324]

@@PunkKittyWuver I wonder how would someone thank these people for their services

[@mtnvortex]

I'm sure that he was thrilled with those wonderfully grateful chosen folks tossing ticking surprises through hotel windows, forever ending the service of his fellow servicemen. Awful people. I don't envy the position he was in.

[@haggis087]

My Grandfather, David Robertson joined the Police on 30th October 1930 and died, from cancer, there on 11th May 1944. He was a Sergeant and his number was 799. My Grandmother, my Mum and her sister were shipped home to Scotland, the only assistance they received. I am proud to have many photo's that my Mum passed onto me of their time there, including his Gravestone.

[@yishaipiano3928]

Where was he buried?

[@haggis087]

@@yishaipiano3928 I believe he is in the Protestant Cemetery in Jerusalem. I have a photo of his memorial on grave

[@yishaipiano3928]

@@haggis087 wow

[@scented-leafpelargonium3366]

​@@haggis087I have been in that cemetery when I was trying to locate the grave of the first Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, Michael Solomon Alexander, who was a Jew who was ordained in St Ann's Church, Dublin. Whilst there I saw many British servicemen's graves. It is administered by the Church of England, who founded a Mission to the Jews in 1841.

[@kennethjohnson6319]

A very educational episode of actual footage of showing the police force in British mandate Palestine training and the way they dress and socialize with each other in Palestine in the 1940s

[@MrTeniguafez]

I'm working on a writing project set in Mandatory Palestine and this was extremely helpful! Thanks for the upload!

[@andrewcombe8907]

Pity the Brits gave up the Mandate. They could have saved us from the chaos that is the current situation with their famous good manners, civilised behaviour and rule of law. The fact that they had British, Arab and Jewish police serving side by side is proof of what could have been.

[@davidmc8475]

Even with the British in charge of safety for Palestine citizens there was conflict. The riots of Nebi Musa of 1920. The Jaffa Riots 0f 1921. The Palestinian Riots of 1929. The Arab revolt of 1936-1939.

[@scented-leafpelargonium3366]

@andrewcombe8907 : The Brits couldn't handle it and bailed out after making promises to both peoples, leaving a bloodbath ever since. The one thing they were good at was keeping out Jewish survivors of the Holocaust seeking refuge from Europe in their ancient homeland.

[@ChristianPareATLAS]

The British got attacked multiple times by the Haganah and Irgun because the British tried to slow down immigration of Zionists and it turned against them. The revolts started after the creation of the Haganah in 1920 not before. Conflicts started when Zionists started to buy too much land Palestinians decided to take matters in their own hands and the Zionists did the same before or after. If all the Arabs of the world would start to move to the USA the Americans would push back exactly like with the migrants crisis. Exactly the same thing except Palestinians lost and got caged in Gaza and the West Bank

[@scratchdog2216]

Personally I like motorcycles but I did admire that horsemanship. Well trained horse/rider.

[@rosepearl7092]

My Grandmother was born in Jerusalem 1923. She said that the British were a bunch of drunks...

[@mtnvortex]

You should hear what folks say about your grandmother.

[@RPMZ11]

That's exactly what the Germans said...how'd that go?

[@lorraineclark2307]

@@mtnvortex nasty little mommas boy

[@abc33944]

They are still drunks and they can’t handle their drink They act like idiots

[@dogblessamerica]

@mtnvortex Underrated comment 😂

[@indigenousnorwegianeuropa4145]

Very interesting

[@shimondauber8984]

Are you adventurous enough to join!

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@minneminsken4995]

Thank you SO MUCH for making history alive and kicking. Whatever I knew till now was from books. Internet makes it possible to see history the way it was.

[@keithmoore5306]

going by this the Brits should have kept the sand pile it would have prevented a whole lot of war and bloodshed!!!

[@Thomas-uf8si]

To be fair we were part of the problem and Palestine is fertile

[@dexlab7794]

Or brits could have just stayed out in the first place

[@keithmoore5306]

@@dexlab7794 actually by the time the Brits took over that sandpile the turks had already made the mess!! the brits were trying to clean it up!

[@seanmccann8368]

The brits should never have been let 'take' or 'keep' anywhere. They were worse than the NAZI's or Soviets.

[@keithmoore5306]

@@seanmccann8368 true but once there!!

[@robertgoodger9687]

And so began the current situation.

[@traderfairy]

0:55 “ contrary to popular belief Palestine is not a large country it is indeed no bigger than Wales” 🇵🇸

[@rowanbradford5032]

My great grandad was a conscientious objector and was instead made a member of the Palestinian police during ww2. I would love to know more but all I have is that piece of information and a photograph!

[@bobbiad1]

Likewise and I’d really like to know more about him, sadly he died whilst I was too young to speak to him about it as will be the case with so many.

[@jasminmaria2]

🇧🇷hello Brazil. Interesting documentary

[@johnbrownbridge873]

My wife's dad served in the Palestine Police for a while , he had a photo of him on a "grey" horse. I never realised how large a force it was until now as he never said much about his service except once he said he guarded a bank from a cage suspended from the ceiling and armed with a Thompson submachine gun.

[@MarkHenstridge]

Just another day at the office

[@scented-leafpelargonium3366]

@johnbrownbridge873 : He obviously encountered the Arab dislike of foreign occupiers.

[@papapabs175]

My old man was in the Palestine Police just after WW2.

[@pathikritchoudhury6611]

I have an Israeli friend whose great grandfather was an officer of Palestine Police Force

[@erberon82]

1:18 Mosque staying on Solomons Temple 😃.No words needed 😂

[@COIcultist]

13.05 onwards. Marine police on the lake flying the White Ensign, not a defaced Blue Ensign?

[@moedoes1989]

The Palestine police force hq is now a Starbucks

[@IvanDmitriev1]

Followed by an educational film about a banana stand in Afghanistan :)

[@justjosie1163]

The superb British Palestine Police Force could have defeated the terrorist organizations that caused so much suffering in the mid to late 1940s. Unfortunately, their superiors did not allow that due to "reasons". The results are still haunting us to today. It also shows why not allowing mass migration is important, as this fueled what would occur.

[@yasserothman4023]

He who didn't own the British gave he who doesn't deserve the israelis

[@Thomas-uf8si]

Very true

[@mohammedsameer5616]

The countries of the South suffered from colonialism, and now Palestine is still suffering

[@angryjock3938]

Ever heard of the Ottoman Empire?

[@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb]

'Well-armed police force to put down large disturbances quickly'. Only truthful thing in this propaganda film.

[@Thomas-uf8si]

Shame it didn't work when the Jews revolted I suspect it was all olanned

[@therocinante3443]

Wow, Palastine was civilized once?

[@Thomas-uf8si]

Yes before the Israelis arrived

[@mizrahiwithattitude2733]

@@Thomas-uf8si the israelis were there dummi there 600 000 of them there most of jerusalem was jeish tel aviv had 100 000 people alone all jews israeli hebrew speaking jews

[@Thomas-uf8si]

@@mizrahiwithattitude2733 yes strictly policed by the British and kept at bay by the Arabs like it should be

[@mizrahiwithattitude2733]

@@Thomas-uf8si no it was not like that not even close

[@zuleimahernandez8037]

Yes, before the establishment of “Israel”

[@markthrasher6770]

Before the Mandate, Palestine was a moderate Arab state and not yet radically antisemitic and Jews could freely come and go and naturally live amongst the Palestinians, and Lebanese, and Jordanians too, as foreign nationals and assimilated immigrants and there wouldn't have been the need for the two state malarkey.... Jews could have just lived peacefully and respectfully as Palestinian citizens, like they did everywhere else, and had access to Jerusalem just the same.... but no.... Zionism was a sham and the Brits, and the Americans, fell for it.... Oh how every Westerner quietly wishes we should had left the Arab states just as they were....

[@Barabel22]

Don’t blame it all on Jews and “Zionism”. Look up some of the Arab atrocities during the 1948-49 war, they wanted to drive the new state of Israel into extinction.

[@Thomas-uf8si]

@@Barabel22 Don't spout your pseudo history here

[@acevintura5102]

Save your crap

[@saturnalia2567]

It wasn't even a state before the mandate.

[@Lao_lu]

yet this very video refers to Palestine as a country. @@saturnalia2567

[@Billzloveschelsea]

How beautiful life was before Israel was created the devilish land

[@user-cy1iy2dx3w]

cowards hiding behind weapons

[@groupewaite]

Your people don't use weapons?

[@Charlie-hp2oh]

Palestine was not a country, and palestinian is not a race. The Brits mess up everything

[@mirzahassanali3257]

Long live palestine police long live Pakistan police long live Pakistan palestine brotherhood

[@jeanade9010]

Propaganda film. The Palestinians were marginalized and already being oppressed by this time and the police force was militarized by 1942. This force became the IDF in 1948. Those mobile units were for warfare within Palestine against Palestinians and for warfare in Syria and Iraq. Former Palestinian police members were forcibly expelled along with Palestinian civilians in the 1948 Nakba.

[@erberon82]

Nakba was and still will arabic responsibility.It would never happend if the arab league didnt attack Israel.And according to many testimonies from arabs who lived in that years it was only the arab league and Syrian government who told arabs to leave the land and falsely lied to them that in few weeks they can return back.Most interesting fact is that arabs who leaved their houses and land to nearby countries never werent accepted by them.Until today many Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon,Jordan,Syria or Egypt are like second class citizens who dont have official cutizenship of any mentioned country and they live under real apartheid in fellow arabic countries.

[@user-mg2ip8cr8z]

hashish is not vicious

[@shmuelsachyan-yp6mm]

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