page_title: Tegart fort
section_title: List of Tegart forts in Mandatory Palestine
hierarchical_section_title: Tegart fort / List of Tegart forts in Mandatory Palestine
caption_attribution_description: English: Yad la-Shiryon museum grounds with the Teggart fort as seen from the ruins of the crusader castle, Latrun, Israel.
context_page_description: A Tegart fort is a type of militarized police fort constructed throughout Palestine during the British Mandatory period, initiated as a measure against the 1936–39 Arab Revolt.
context_section_description: A progressing list. Not all British Mandate police stations listed below correspond to the definition of a "Tegart fort", although they were all part of the same security building project from 1940-41, with later additions.
  British name of the fort, current location name (if it changed), history, current state/use:
  ....... police station, now Camp 1391 (active)
  Acre police station, now Akko (active)
  Affula police station (active)
  Al-Khalisa police station, now Kiryat Shmona (active)
  Artuf police station, now Beit Shemesh (active)
  Atlit police station, now part of an Israeli military prison, Prison Six
  Bassa police station, now Ya'ara (military base)
  Beersheba police station, now headquarters of the Southern Command
  Beisan police station, now Beit She'an (active)
  Beit Dajan, now Beit Dagan police station (active)
  Beit Jibrin police station, now Beit Guvrin Border Police base
  Khirbet Beit Lid police station, now  Ashmoret maximum security prison at HaSharon or Beit Lid Junction near Ganot Hadar
  Beit Shemesh police station (active)
  Bethlehem - 2 police stations, one is now the local seat of the Palestinian Authority
  Damun police station, now Damon Prison on Mount Carmel
  Deir Qaddis police station
  Dhahiriya police station
  Ein Tina police station in Wadi Amud near Hukok (abandoned). Also Ein at-Tina, Ein-a-Tina, Ein et-Tina.
  Fara police station, at Far'a refugee camp near Nablus, now a Palestinian prison
  Farradiyya police station, depopulated village near Parod (abandoned)
  Gaza police station
  Gesher police station (abandoned; heritage site near Old Gesher)
  Hadera police station (active)
  El Hamme police station, now Hamat Gader; destroyed or abandoned (?), in military area on the border.
  Hebron police station (destroyed 2001)
  Iraq Suweidan police station ("Metzudat Yoav Shenkar" - Yoav Shenkar Fortress), now the Givati Brigade Museum
  Jalame police station, now Kishon Detention Center near Haifa
  Jenin police station, now the local seat of the Palestinian Authority
  Jericho police station, destroyed by the Palestinian Authority
  Jiftlik police station (destroyed? military base?)
  Qalqilia police station, destroyed by the Israeli army in 1956 as part of a retaliatory operation
  Karkur police station
  Kfar Saba police station (active)
  Khalsa police station
  Khan Yunis police station (destroyed 1955)
  Kiryat El Anab police station near Abu Ghosh, served as the initial headquarters of the Givati Brigade and later as a military base; abandoned.
  Kiriat Haim police station in Haifa (active)
  Latrun police station, now the IDF's Armored Corps Memorial Site and Museum
  Lajjun police station near Tel Megiddo, now Megiddo Prison
  Lydda police station, now Lod Border Police Headquarters
  Majdal police station, now Shikma Prison at Ashkelon (maximum security prison)
  Majd al-Krum police station (restaurant)
  Metulla police station
  Nabi Salih police station, now the Halamish (Neveh Tzuf) day care center and girls high school
  Nabi Yusha police station, now the Metzudat Koach Memorial and museum of the 1948 battle
  Nablus - 3 police stations
  Nahalal police station, now the Center for Commemorating the Jewish Supernumerary Police
  Nazareth police station
  Ness Ziona police station (active)
  Petah Tiqvah police station (active)
  El Qatra police station at Gedera (abandoned)
  Rafah police station
  Ramallah police station, largely destroyed during the Second Intifada, now part of the "Mukataa" presidential HQ of the Palestinian Authority
  Ramat Gan police station (active)
  Ramleh - two police stations:
  one still active police station
  Ayalon Prison (maximum security prison) in Ramla
  Rehovot police station (active)
  Rosh Pinna police station
  Salha fort, built in 1938
  Safad - 2 police stations:
  inner-city municipal police station
  Safed, the Mount Canaan police station (in ruins)
  Samakh, the British border guard base (Tsemah Junction near Tiberias), now abandoned
  Sarafand El Kharab police station
  Sa'sa' police post, 4km west of Sa'sa', now military base adjacent to Mattat
  Shafa Amr police station, now Givat Hamishtara near Shfaram: police museum, but closed to the public (as
caption: The Latrun Museum
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