The Recent Palestine Riots
| Published date | 01 July 1934 |
| Author | R. G. B. Spicer |
| Date | 01 July 1934 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X3400700312 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
The
Recent Palestine Riots
SOME
POLICE
LESSONS
LEARNED
By R. G. B.
SPICER,
M.C.
Inspector-General
of the Palestine Police
ITwould appear from aperusal of
the
Home
papers
that
the Palestine Police were very much in
the
public eye last
autumn,
in view of the
part
they played in dealing with
the
riots in Palestine.
It
has therefore occurred to me
that
some
of
the
lessons we have learned in these riots may be of con-
siderable interest to other police forces both at home
and
abroad.
It
is noteworthy
that
the
police succeeded in restor-
ing
order, wherever disorder had occurred throughout
Palestine, without calling on
the
military,
and
the Secretary
of State informed
the
House of Commons of this fact.
Causes
of
the Trouble
The
events leading up to the riots can be quoted from
The Times of November
8:
'On
October 8 the Palestine
Arab Executive Committee passed aresolution in favour of a
general strike to take place on October 13, accompanied by a
demonstration by means of a procession in Jerusalem, to
protest against Jewish immigration and
the
sale of land to
Jews.
The
officer administering
the
Government very
pro-
perly warned
the
Executive, in
the
interests of public order,
that
any such demonstration would be prohibited, giving
them
at
the
same time an assurance
that
any representations
that
they chose to make in
the
proper manner would be laid
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