At security meeting with police commands, Al-Shammari presides and makes directives

INA-  Baghdad


After reviewing security measures and offering several recommendations, Interior Minister Abdul Amir al-Shammari chaired a meeting with provincial police commanders on Sunday. 
 
"Interior Minister Abdul Amir al-Shammari, chaired a meeting with police commanders in the provinces on Sunday to review security plans and discuss a number of topics that serve citizens," reads a statement from the Ministry of Interior that the Iraqi News Agency (INA) obtained.

In the statement, the minister focused "the need to continue to implement arrest warrants and the speed of their implementation," highlighting "support for all new directorates and attention to police stations, describing them as the public image of the ministry, directing that these centers be exemplary as required."

The minister went on to emphasize "the continuation of foot patrols in all regions, the support of the work of the Anti-Narcotics Directorate, as well as the conduct of a wide media campaign for the purpose of implementing the project to restrict weapons to the state and signaling of the danger of acquiring unlicensed weapons and legal processes against violators."

 
"Police commanders are the ones who bear responsibility for any security breach in the six provinces where the Interior Ministry has assumed security responsibility," he stated. 
 
In a different direction, interior minister underlined "the reinforcement of police efforts in combating cases of begging, and the police squad must take the necessary legal measures against beggars."