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The Jewish Supernumerary Police (sometimes referred to as Jewish Auxiliary Police) were a branch of the Guards (Notrim
Notrim

The Notrim were a Jewish Police Force set up by the British in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1936. The force was divided into Jewish Supernumerary Police and highly mobile Jewish Settlement Police....
) set up by the British in Mandate Palestine in June 1936. Around 22,000 Notrim were appointed, armed and equipped by the British to act as a protective militia for Jewish settlements. This force "soon became a legal cover for the Haganah
Haganah

Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces....
 and an increasingly effective shield against Arab forays".

The British authorities gradually expanded the Supernumerary Police from 6,000 to 14,000.






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The Jewish Supernumerary Police (sometimes referred to as Jewish Auxiliary Police) were a branch of the Guards (Notrim
Notrim

The Notrim were a Jewish Police Force set up by the British in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1936. The force was divided into Jewish Supernumerary Police and highly mobile Jewish Settlement Police....
) set up by the British in Mandate Palestine in June 1936. Around 22,000 Notrim were appointed, armed and equipped by the British to act as a protective militia for Jewish settlements. This force "soon became a legal cover for the Haganah
Haganah

Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces....
 and an increasingly effective shield against Arab forays".

The British authorities gradually expanded the Supernumerary Police from 6,000 to 14,000. Those trained became the nucleus of the Haganah, which itself became the main constituent of the Israel Defense Forces
Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces , commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew Acronym and initialism Tzahal , are Israel's military forces, comprising the GOC Army Headquarters, Israeli Air Force and Israeli navy....
 during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, known by the Israelis predominantly as War of Independence and War of Liberation , and by Palestinians as the Catastrophe , was the first in a series of wars fought between the Declaration of Independence State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict....
.

The other branch of the Notrim was an élite mobile force known as the Jewish Settlement Police
Jewish Settlement Police

The Jewish Settlement Police were a division of the Notrim established in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1936. They were developed by the Haganah into an ?lite force....
.

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