Rights group suggests communal police to end violence

Sunday 10-03-2013 02:35 PM
Rights group suggests communal police to end violence

A protester, who opposes Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, flees from teargas released by riot police during clashes along Qasr Al Nil bridge, which leads to Tahrir Square in Cairo March 9, 2013. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

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The New World Foundation for Development and Human Rights has advised Egypt's government to form a "communal police" to contain deteriorating security conditions. 

Waves of violence have swept the Middle East's most populous country in recent weeks with protesters and forces clashing across the country and strikes and civil disobedience continuing in several locations. 

The violent confrontations have left tens dead and wounded as the police apparatus fails to control the situation. 

The foundation explained that a communal police would not replace the police apparatus but help curb the violence and reduce the tension between civilians and the police. 

It added that other countries, where the police force could not be trusted due to its ill reputation that is marred by torture and oppression, had implemented this system as it was challenging to recover the force. 

It suggested for the government to train fresh graduates of law and other related majors for six months and spread them across the country to monitor daily security issues. 

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