A security source revealed to Youm7 newspaper Saturday the Interior Ministry's security plan to secure the presidential elections, scheduled for next Wednesday and Thursday.
The source said the plan gives priority to securing polling stations and sorting headquarters and involves both the police and the armed forces.
Police stations received the ballot boxes and the voting ink Friday and will transfer them to the sub-committees, he said.
Inside each polling station there will be a regular police officer, an investigative police officer, a supervisor from the Investigations Department, a regular sergeant, five investigative police personnel and five regular police personnel, in addition to a member of the Civil Protection Authorities, the security source added.
At the end of the first day of voting a police car will spend the night in front of each polling station, in addition to troops stationed to secure ballot boxes and the election headquarters.
Two formations of Central Security Forces, two Civil Defense cars and military police forces will be stationed outside each sorting headquarters.
The Interior Ministry has a separate plans to safely transfer ballot boxes from polling stations to sorting headquarters for each electoral area.
In the parliamentary elections each police station was informed of the timing of the arrival of boxes, judges. and ink beforehand, but in the presidential elections each station will receive orders a day by day, the source said.
