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A sprawling state-of-the-art national police academy that took three
years and NIS 2 billion to build was unveiled in Beit Shemesh Thursday
in ceremony attended by hundreds of high-ranking police officers, the
chief of police and public security minister.

Police Chief
Insp.-Gen. Yohanan Danino described the academy, which sits on 23
hectares (54 acres), can house 1,000 cadets and features multiple
classrooms, a fire-arms training facility, Olympic-sized swimming pool,
football field, track and a world-class physical-education center, as a
“dream come true.”

“This vision took more than two decades of
planning,” Danino said in the academy’s auditorium at the official
ceremony. “It is a vision that has a historical dimension and strategic
importance to the Israeli Police.”

He continued: “Construction
of this impressive facility was made possible by the shared vision of a
number of factors – the police, Department of Homeland Security, other
government agencies, and civilian elements – and I see the
establishment of the academy as a springboard to promote the
capabilities and objectives of the Israeli police.”

Public
Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch also lauded the academy as a
comprehensive facility aligned with his vision for the police.

“I
am confident that this academy will serve as significant leverage in
developing the police, the region as a whole and the city of Beit
Shemesh, in particular.”

Beit Shemesh Mayor Moshe Abutbul called the academy as a “present” to his city.

“This
is one of the happiest days for Beit Shemesh because this is a place
of work for the citizens, a place they can visit and the arnona [taxes]
will create a lot of funding for the city and residents,” said a
smiling Abutbul.

“The police can come to speak to our children at
their schools, and they can visit them, so it’s a great cooperation
that will make Beit Shemesh better.”

Moshe Lahmani, chairman of
Shikun & Binui, which built and will operate the campus, said
Israel should be proud that its police are getting such an advanced
facility.

“I think the police deserve such a state-of-the-art academy, which this is, even in world terms,” he said.

Micky
Adiv, CEO of G4S Israel – a subsidiary of the world’s largest security
company, which helped construct the campus and will help operate it –
called the academy “a superb achievement.”

“Undoubtedly, this
exceeds the wildest expectations of everyone involved in this project,
and I think it’s unique because all the stakeholders – the public
security ministry, police, builder and ourselves – created one goal
that everyone believed in: to get this place working by January 1,” he
said, adding that it was fully operational three months before.