Sisi celebrates Police Day at Police Academy

CAIRO – 24 January 2018: Interior Ministry holds a grand ceremony on Wednesday in the new Police Academy in New Cairo on the occasion of the National Police Day on January 25.

With the participation of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar is slated to honor families of police martyrs who lost their lives to terrorism, along with a number of security chiefs.

Senior State officials as well as a number of members of the Supreme council of Police are also in attendance. President Sisi also laid a wreath of flowers at the monument that commemorates police martyrs.



President Sisi is set to contest the presidential elections due in March, amid growing uncertainty looming around the potential candidates who will expectedly run against him.

Since the ouster of ex-Muslim brotherhood- affiliated President Mohamed Morsi, Egypt has been witnessing growing waves of extremism washing over society and spawning numerous deadly attacks, among these attacks was the terrorist attack that hit Al-Rawdah Mosque and left more than 302 Friday prayers congregates dead in late November.

A month earlier, The Interior Ministry announced that 16 security officers were killed during clashes with militants in Wahat in the Western Desert; the clashes also led to the killing of 15 militants.