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Jewish Supernumerary Police

Branch of Jewish auxiliary police in British Mandate of Palestine

Field	Value
unit_name	Jewish Supernumerary Police
native_name	Shotrim Musafim (שוטרים מוספים)
image	Ghaffir.jpeg
image_size	200px
caption	Members of the Jewish Supernumerary Police, 1937.
dates	1936–1948
country	British Mandate of Palestine
allegiance	British Mandate of Palestine
branch	Notrim
type	Auxiliary police
role	Guard duties, counter-insurgency
size	6,000–22,000
command_structure	British Army
garrison	Various Jewish settlements in Palestine
battles	1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
disbanded	1948

The Jewish Supernumerary Police (Hebrew: Shotrim Musafim), sometimes referred to as Jewish Auxiliary Police, were a branch of the Guards (Notrim) set up by the British in the British Mandate of 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 élite mobile force, created in 1938, known as the Jewish Settlement Police.

File:כפר רופין - המשוריין ביום העליה-JNF034770.jpeg|Jewish Supernumerary Police, Kfar Ruppin 1938 File:עמק הירדן - קבוצת "השומר" - הגנה וגיוס-JNF032750.jpeg|Jewish Supernumerary Police 1938 File:עמק יזרעאל - פלוגות העמק קבוצת רוכבים יהודים.-JNF035456.jpeg|Jewish Supernumerary Police led by British army officer 1938

Footnotes

References

Bowyer Bell, John (1996). Terror Out of Zion. Transaction Publishers.
Nasr, Kameel B. (1996). Arab and Israeli Terrorism: The Causes and Effects of Political Violence, 1936-1993. McFarland & Company.

References

Nasr, 1996, p. 13.

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