Best Friends: Israel and State of Georgia Law Enforcement

Posted on April 23, 2007 • By Rebecca Markowitz
Category: Miscellaneous |

Thank goodness this made headline news in Lincoln County, Georgia or else we might never have found out about such a cool program. The program is called GILEE - Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange. According to their website, GILEE was founded in May 1992 (how did it take so long for us to find out about this?) with the following objectives:

1. To enhance inter-agency cooperation between State of Georgia law enforcement agencies and the police force of the State of Israel.

2. To offer an educational professional program to senior Israeli law enforcement officials in Georgia, primarily in the area of community policing.

3. To offer an educational professional program to senior Georgia law enforcement officials in Israel, primarily in the areas of counter-terrorism and drug interdiction.

Basically, Georgia trades its knowledge of community policing for Israel’s knowledge of counter-terrorism and drug crime prevention. The program is still very active - as we note the upcoming visit of a Lincoln County Sheriff soon to arrive in Israel.

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