Patrouille police Yasam BMW F800GS Jérusalem juillet 2014

The Yasam ( he, יס"מ) is the

Israel Police The Israel Police ( he, משטרת ישראל, ''Mišteret Yisra'el''; ar, شرطة إسرائيل, ''Shurtat Isrāʼīl'') is the civilian police force of Israel. As with most other police forces in the world, its duties include crime fightin ...

Special Patrol Unit ( he, יחידת סיור מיוחדת ''Yeḥidat Siyur Meyuḥedet''), a

riot police Riot police are police who are organized, deployed, trained or equipped to confront crowds, protests or riots. Riot police may be regular police who act in the role of riot police in particular situations or they may be separate units organize ...

unit dedicated to continuous security,

riot A riot is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property, or people. Riots typically involve destruction of property, public or private. The property targete ...

and

crowd control Crowd control is a public security practice in which large crowds are managed in order to prevent the outbreak of crowd crushes, affray, fights involving drunk and disorderly people or riots. Crowd crushes in particular can cause many hundreds ...

, and other special operations. The Yasam were heavily involved in the Israeli disengagement of August 2005 and

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evacuation, and have been under widespread criticism for these and other operations. Officers are often recruited from

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and Border Police special forces, having all served in combat units of one kind or another. Yasam officers wear grey trousers and jackets with a black cap embossed with their unit's insignia. In Jerusalem Yasam officers are often seen patrolling Jaffa Street (the city's main thoroughfare) on motorbikes which acts as a deterrent against terrorist attacks. They are, however, more often than not involved in breaking up late-night fights outside bars. They have also guarded the

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from protestors at the Kotel, and performed counter-riot duties against Palestinians in East Jerusalem.

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* BMW F800GS

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Yasam at the Israel Police website

Israeli mayors criticize Yasam
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