Jewish Supernumerary Police

Jewish Supernumerary Police
שוטרים מוספים
Jewish Supernumerary Policemen, 1937
Active	1936–1948
Disbanded	1948
Country	Mandatory Palestine
Allegiance	Mandatory Palestine
Branch	Notrim
Type	Auxiliary police
Role	Guard duties, counter-insurgency
Size	6,000–22,000
Part of	British Army
Garrison/HQ	Various Jewish settlements in Palestine
Engagements	1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine

The Jewish Supernumerary Police (Hebrew: שוטרים מוספים, romanized: Shotrim Musafim), sometimes referred to as Jewish Auxiliary Police, were a branch of the Notrim set up by the British in Mandatory Palestine in June 1936.

The British authorities gradually expanded the Supernumerary Police from 6,000 to 14,000 and ultimately 22,000. Those trained became the nucleus of the Haganah, which itself became the main constituent of the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

The other branch of the Notrim was an elite mobile force, created in 1938, known as the Jewish Settlement Police.

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  Jewish Supernumerary Police, Kfar Ruppin 1938
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  Jewish Supernumerary Police, 1938
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  Jewish Supernumerary Police led by British Army officer 1938

See also

• Notrim
  • Jewish Settlement Police

References

• Bowyer Bell, John (1996). Terror Out of Zion. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 1-56000-870-9
• Nasr, Kameel B. (1996). Arab and Israeli Terrorism: The Causes and Effects of Political Violence, 1936-1993. McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-0280-6