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Nov 12, 2017

Proposed Law: Police Chief and PM salary levels

MK David Amsalem (Likud) is proposing a law that would decrease the salary of the Police Chief and increase the salary of the Prime Minister.

Amsalem's idea, besides for being Netanyahu's bulldog, is that the Police Chief earns 97,000nis per month while a regular new policeman starts with a salary of 6000nis per month Amsalem says they will all be fine if the chief only earns 40,000nis per monthy and rookie police officers earn 10,000nis per month.  The Chief of Police, according to Amsalem, should be equal to that of a Member of Knesset, while the highest salary in the Knesset should be that of the Prime Minister, as he manages everything..

As of now the PM earns 48,815nis per month. The Police Chief earns 97k, the IDF Chief of Staff earns 84,400, The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court earns 92,973, among others.
source: Actualic

Initially many are opposed to this, even from within the coalition. MK Uri Maklev (UTJ) opposes it saying that the PM gets many other benefits that the Police Chief does not receive. The PM himself, at least publicly, opposes it.
source: Actualic

I don't have an opinion as to how much each public official should be earning. I do not understand what comparing the PM's salary to the Police Chief's salary has to do with the comparison between the Police Chief's salary and a police rookie's salary. They are two different issues. The Police Chief's salary could be decreased and rookies' salaries increased without having anything to do with equating one to the PM's salary. Or, the rookies' salaries could be increased without decreasing the Chief's. Decreasing the Chief's salary won't give you the necessary monies to fund the increase in rookies' salaries - at least not for more than a handful of rookies - so if you think the police need a higher salary scale, work on that as an independent issue..



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