Egypt Today- Changing the face of history 3

where is the Police?

In the streets of Cairo, life seems to get back to normal during the day, except for the tanks that i see from my balcony, eveyrthing is back to the regular hustle and bustle of the daily life here... nevertheless, in reality it is not... let me shed the light why not?

- guiza, sabtia, tahrir, doki, zamalek and beau lac... 3 police soldiers were spotted for traffic.. no other presence of police officers are around... yet, it works.. traffic was heavy but in fact it works better than when we had officers around..
- cars double parked, without blocking the street.. they would have done the same in the presence of the police officers but they would have paid the police officer or the soldiers to avoid the fines.. so, the only difference here is the pocket of the citizen, who would have broken the law and ran away with it for few pounds.
- 6 army soldiers, not from the military police but from the regular military, captured 2 and running with them to probably a place where they can detain them... those 2 were either thieves or thugs.. we couldn't have known because we were not at the crime/problem scene.
- stories about people mugged by using knives under the bridge next door... this is few steps away from the presence of the military and the tanks!
- thugs fightings we hear of that takes place every night around cairo and even in tahrir square.
- thugs with live ammunition fight on daily basis in different quarters in alexandria at night... we were told that until now, not a single night has passed without the sounds of gun shots.
- 2 days ago, an officer fought with a driver in Maadi, the driver was shot but survived, the officer was hit by the other drivers but survived.. and all of a sudden the revolver that the officer has used in the incident disappeared from the crime scene!
- also, a general saying that the police officers are the masters of the people and whoever dares to raise his voice should be beaten ... by using shoes! we have heard he got transfered.. that was his punishment... no one knows even to where he was transfered!!
-news about some of the State Security officers are on track and not losing time in further torturing those who were tortured and jailed so as not to confess that they were tortured!

to sum up, i have one observation derived from the title of this blog... where is the Police? we all know that there are many things that need to be done with the whole establishment of the Ministry of Interior.. between accountability and rebuilding trust between the people and the police that will take time.. but for the time being the officers have to change their attitude with the people and start working.. otherwise, they shouldn't get salaries for staying home because their salaries are paid by the people from their taxes... I hope not everything we say falls on deaf ears!