bm (beis medrash?; To your main topic. In a city like New York (or Ramapo), there is always the possibility to exchange shift work with someone else who’d rather have Sunday, or any other day off. In Israel, though, solving this problem could be more difficult. As a matter of fact, one of the Negative side effects of those (stupid, malicious) demonstrations against the Karta parking garage in Jerusalem was that some religious Police Officers had to come to work on Shabbos, probably with a Heter of the Police Dp’t. Rabbis, because the situation was deemed an emergency. On one of the pictures, (of the demonstration) a Charedi cop (with Payos) could be seen trying to control the demonstrators. About the other potential situations that you enumerated. They are being solved without major interruption and according to Halacha.
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