Insp.-Gen. Yohanan Danino, who took over command of the Israel Police on Sunday, has introduced a sweeping reshuffling of the force’s brass – and created a new police district in the North.The changes announced on Tuesday include dividing the police’s Northern District into two: one based around Haifa (the Coastal District), and the second covering the Galilee and the Golan Heights (the Northern District); there will now be seven districts.Several new district heads have been appointed, and will be sworn in at a ceremony on Wednesday morning at the Public Security Ministry in Jerusalem.
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