Intro Section 1
1914-1920
Section 2
1920-1922
Section 3
1923-1927
Section 4
1927-1929
Section 5
1930-1936
Section 6
1936-1939
Section 7
1937-1939
Section 8
1939-1943
Section 9
1943-1945
Section 10
1945-1946
Section 11
Jan-May 1947
Section 12
May-Nov 1947
Section 13
Dec 1947-April 1948
Section 14
Evacuation 1948
Stand Down
July 1948



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The Early Port Police

i. Formation of the Palestine Police

ii. The Peoples of Palestine in 1920

iii. Early Port Police

iv. Early Clashes

v. Brief Existence of the PDF

vi. Formation of the Palestinian Gendarmerie

vii. Captain James Wesley Mackenzie

viii. 1922 Formation of the British Gendarmerie

Haifa's Jetty and the Kaiser See before the harbour was built

Jetty and Kaiser See in Haifa at the end of  the nineteenth century  before the harbour was builtWhile serving in India, Police Commandant Lieutenant Colonel P.B.Bramley,O.B.E. had been interested in river police.

Soon after his appointment to Palestine, he turned his attention to Haifa harbour where, in 1919,Syrian aristocrat, Selim Effendi Haddad, had been appointed Superintendent of Customs under OETA. Both Haddad Effendi and the British harbour master had at their service an ex-Ottoman motor launch respectively renamed Progress and Welcome.

In 1920 Police Commandant Lieutenant Colonel P.B.Bramley,O.B.E. allocated Selim Effendi Haddad a 12 man team from the Palestinian Gendarmerie to police the Port.

A burly and experienced 4-striped Christian Arab Sergeant-major from Shefr Amer, named Redwan Zaroubi, commanded the team. As was the custom under the Ottoman regime, most of Redwan Zaroubi's team were related to him by blood or marriage.

The Superintendent of Customs was reluctant to allow the new Port Police the use of his motor launch so the port police confined most of their activities to land crime but occasionally borrowed the Superintendent's launch to chase vessels they suspected of smuggling hashish. They could, however, do very little to enforce the new fishery laws.

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