Egypt’s Interior Ministry began on Friday to implement a comprehensive security plan in preparation for the start of the school year, which is scheduled on Saturday.
Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar instructed his assistants to exert all efforts and set up a comprehensive security and traffic plan to achieve security for students on their way back and forth to schools, universities and institutes, while intensifying traffic services to reduce congestion at peak times, a security source said.
The source explained that the security and traffic plan depends on a number of axes, foremost of which is achieving traffic liquidity on all squares and streets, in view of the start of the school year which is usually marked by high traffic congestion.
He added that the Interior Minister has assigned leaders of the traffic departments across Egypt to follow traffic throughout the day, and to deal immediately with any traffic build ups, as well as to carry out traffic campaigns, aimed at preventing parking in front of schools and around universities.
He added that the security plan includes intensifying security services near schools to control everything that may disturb public safety.
The source said that the plan will mean the deployment female officers from the department to combat violence against women in front of schools for students and universities, to achieve security and the safety of students, and to address any harassment that may occur.
