Missouri Highway Patrol

One of the organizations that sponsors these trainings is the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The ADL is a non-profit that works to combat anti-Semitism and advocate for Israel. In this context, the ADL runs a National Counter-Terrorism Seminar that has sent hundreds of top ranking officials to Israel to learn about combatting terror since 2003. That same year the ADL established an Advanced Training School that brings delegations of Israeli law enforcement to speak to American law enforcement officials, involving over 1,000 U.S. participants since the program began.

The Highway Patrol of Missouri is among the departments that have sent delegates to Israel. In 2013, officials serving in the Missouri State Highway Patrol attended a training in Missouri with the ADL as delegates of the Advanced Training School, where they were trained by Israel Police Chief Superintendent Gilad Bahat of the Harel Station in Jerusalem.

When St. Louis County Police were pulled out of Ferguson following nationwide outcry, and St Louis Metropolitan Police Department voluntarily pulled out, these departments were replaced with Missouri State Highway Patrol to police Ferguson protesters.

Missouri State Highway Patrol is also one of the departments that uses Israeli private-sector technology. Private Israeli security firms have contracts with both public and private security sectors. One of the private security companies that transfer technology to US police departments is the Israel-based Cellebrite. Cellebrite is a “mobile forensics” firm that manufactures data extraction, transfer and analysis devices for cellular phones and mobile devices for law enforcement, military and intelligence, and corporate customers.

Missouri State Highway Patrol spent $11,193.88 to crack into phones using Israeli tech firm Cellebrite, according to public record requests by Motherboard. Missouri State Highway Patrol uses Cellebrite’s technology to bypass phone passwords and security mechanisms to retrieve call logs, text messages, and in some cases even deleted data.