Israel Police

We Need More Special People

Police recruits can fill a wide variety of roles in different professions and fields: detective work, patrols, Intelligence, traffic, bomb disposal, criminal identification, investigations, Border Guard, anti-terrorism, Civil Guard and combat.

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Conditions for Recruitment to the Israel Police
Officer Rank Recruitment Conditions
Israel Police Recruitment Procedure
Stage A – Initial Selection Procedure
Stage B – Assessment Center
Stage C – Police Officer Inauguration

Israel Police Recruitment Conditions:

Israeli citizenship.
After full military service or legal exemption from military service.
Compliance with compatibility test requirements.
At least 12 years education.
Perfect health.
Compliance with security test requirements.

Officer Rank Recruitment Conditions

IDF officers with training and experience which can be applied to relevant officer duties, and who successfully undergo the selection process, will be recruited in accordance with their IDF rank.
Recruits with applicable academic qualifications will be inducted as officers.
IDF officers and university graduates without relevant training will be inducted with the rank of sergeant major/cadet officer and will undergo police training.

Israel Police Recruitment Procedure

The Israel Police encounters difficult and complex tasks relating to maintaining law and order and internal security on a daily basis. In order to accommodate this work, the police needs skilled and top quality personnel. As a candidate for recruitment to the Israel Police you will undergo strict selection and placement processes in order to test your suitability for service.

Stage A – Introduction and Selection Procedure

If your are found to be initially suitable for recruitment you will be mailed guidelines from the Recruitment Center regarding the rest of the process and you will receive a date for selection testing.
The initial selection process includes selection tests, interviews at a police unit, medical check and security investigation.

Very important – if you are unwell on the selection test day, request a deferment!

Stage B – Assessment Center

As part of the selection procedure you will be referred to an assessment center in order to test your suitability for police service in terms of operational ability and personal compatibility.

At this stage, you will spend 2-3 days in boarding school conditions at the police operational ability school at Ne’urim (near Netanya).

The selection process is designed to test the following areas:

Abilities suitable for the job – compatibility testing will take the form of different types of tests and exercises, some individual and some in a group. The tests will be conducted by Israel Police operational ability instructors and psychologists.
Operational fitness – the level of operational fitness will refer to heart-lung endurance (2,000 m. run for men, 1,000 m. run for women), muscle power, agility and balance in dynamic fields and basic firearms skills.

Our recommendation: take care of your physical fitness gradually and consistently in order to improve your chances of success in the operational fitness tests.

Stage C – Police Officer Inauguration

After meeting all the Israel Police selection requirements, you will be invited to the Recruitment Center to be sworn in as a police officer.

The two first years of your service will be a trial period.

Police officers assigned to roles for which the basic training is a police officer’s course will be invited to the course via their units. The police officer’s course incorporates 3 training periods:

Training at the operational fitness school – 4 weeks.
Basic policing – 7 weeks.
Sector or professional completion (including apprenticeship at the unit) – 14 weeks.

Please fill in all the required details on this form(Hebrew form),and send it to the nearest recruitment center. You will receive a response in the mail from the recruitment center within one month after the police receive your form.

Recruitment Center addresses and fax numbers:

Recruitment Center	Address	Phone	Fax
Tel Aviv	33 Hahashmal str.	03-5644290/1/2/3	03-5644405
Bear-Sheva	5 Shderot Tovia str.	08-6464584	08-6468717
Border Guard	8 Hashmonaim str, Lod	08-9770378/9	08-9770303