When you are a police officer, it means power – fortune – influence and may be torture. This is not Egypt "s royal regime but in the Arab Republic of Egypt which they claim to be democratic. When you are a policeman you are above all problems and even you face one with anyone, your colleagues will make you a favour and torture or even kill him\her for you. So don’t worry…just join the police academy and you will enjoy all the powers, influence and money before you graduate. You could collect money by force from the weak who lost hope for a decent life. Just put your step into the academy. This is the way it works in Egypt . And that is why thousands of secondary school graduates struggle to join all sorts of police academies, because they and their fathers know very well that the only way to protect their families is to have influence, money or power or all the three by joining the police.

 
Away from attempt to get confessions and persecution, a police officer might ask you for money.. or else. The citizen Saleh Abdul Aziz Saleh was driving his “Tock Tock” down the main street of Abou Hammad Center , Sharqia Governorate. A police officer called Tamer Haider Oloy at Abou Hammad of the Traffic authorities, stopped him and asked for LE 20. Saleh offered to give him only L.E. 5 which did not please the officer who took along with his vehicle to Abou Hammad traffic center. Before getting into the building, they had an argument after the police officer started to call the citizen names. Some traffic soldiers went out and dragged the citizen inside where he was beaten with leather belts and was bunched and kicked. One of the soldiers hit him with a hammer on his head and ribs. During that time Mahmoud Al Faramawy Abou Hammad another traffic officer was at the center and took part in the assault. Then they reported to Abou Hammad police station that the (defendant) citizen was the one who attacked the officer and hit his own head to the wall. Detectives immediately hurried to the center and took the citizen to the police station where the chief investigator Yaser Farouk wrote down report no.10023\2007 charging Saleh with assaulting the police officer

 
Head investigator admitted the citizen into hospital hand-cuffed and under police custody due to his bad medical condition without public prosecution’s permission. Public prosecution decided to release him unless he is indicted in any other crimes and to be examined by medical authorities to diagnose his injuries and the instrument used to inflict them. The citizen was out of hospital on Sunday August 4th and was taken to Abou Hammad police station where he was held to force him to become reconciled with the police officer and the traffic officer. Police elements threatened to arrest him during his illegal detention if he does not agree. Abou Hammad police officer refrained from executing the DA decision to examine Saleh by medical authorities with the aim of concealing evidences of his injuries.

 
The incident turned into an assault by Saleh who refused to pay the LE twenty and the one who asked was a police officer.. full obedience is a must for all officers.

When a car accident takes place between an officer and an ordinary citizen, it is certain that the citizen is to blame and deserves to be punished simply because policemen do not err. This is the case with the police who are supposed to be the servants of the people.

 
The story starts on 15\8\2007 when a simple car accident between a taxi holding the license no. 155 North Sinai and a private car no. 198700 Giza . The private car’s owner – who was wearing a first lieutenant uniform – attacked the taxi driver Ahmad Abd El Gawad Salama Al Hegawy and injuried him after he had beaten by a number of Marg police station police officers who prevented other people and drivers from intervening to rescue the driver from the hands of policemen. As if the assault was not enough.. the officer broke the taxi’s windshield and ruined the tires. He also threatened to kill the driver calling him and his people: “spies and sons of ..”. After act of bully is over and the police officer left, the driver lodged a complaint no. 18195 with Marg misdemeanour and a medical report no.19683 was issued by Marg hospital. Ahmad Al Hegawy demanded to restore his right as a citizen who was insulted by a policeman who accused him of being a spy because he is from North Sinai and the officer has power and influence.

 
In Egypt, do not ever marry a beautiful woman and if you do, you have to hide her form dishonest police officers or one of them might see her and admire her beauty and snatches your life, toil and money as well as your wife after forcing you to divorce her. A simple citizen called Shokri from Beni Suief works as a porter in an apartment block and suffered from grave injustice by a police brigadier called Magdy Al Said head of the criminal surveillance department of Giza security forces. Brigadier Magdy kidnapped Shokry’s cousin and wife and his enfant daughter assisted by three of his men.

.
The incident began on Friday 13\1\2007 when Shokry was getting ready to leave to perform his Friday prayers. Three persons in police uniform suddenly rushed in- one of them was a brigadier and two lower rank officers. They dragged him to the floor, hit him and pointed their guns at him threatening to kill him and his family if he screams or asks for help. Then they forced him to sign on bills and stole L.E 15.000, including LE 14500 his life time savings and L.E 500 belonged to the inhabitants. They also compelled him to divorce his wife and kidnapped her and his six-year old daughter. When the wife managed to contact her husband she said that they tortured her and the brigadier told him that he married her. Shokry lodged many complaints that were all filed, including one to the presidency, a complaint with Giza police force, two for the DA, three for the ministry of interior and two at Abdeen Palace . When he tried to enter the headquarters of Giza police, he was prevented three times and was threatened that he would be sent to jail. When he tried to call brigadier Magdy, he threatened to arrest him and his family. As for his family, it was scattered since the abduction of the mother. Four children left school, the other children went back to their village to live with their relatives there and the two-year Ahmad is fed ‘water and sugar’. The inhabitants of the building asked Shokry to remarry or leave within 9 days as he is unable to serve them and his children. Now he works in shoe shining after he sold his furniture and no comment.

 
If you decide to take a means of transport, make sure that no police officer is on board. If you still decide to do so make sure that you have change otherwise the officer might decide to hit and insult you because you dared to ask the rest of your money back.
This is exactly what had happened to a lawyer called Ahmad Abdul Aziz who got into a microbus and when he asked the driver for change he was stunned that a police assistant sergeant Ashraf Morgan was so angry to know that he asks for getting his 25 piaster only back. The officer started to call Abdul Aziz names who tried to show resentment when he ordered the detectives who was accompanying him to hit him. The police assistant kept saying: “Do not you who I am? I am the police assistant of the station.” As the officer knew that the defendant was a lawyer, he called all lawyers names. He ordered the detectives to cuff him and led him to another microbus to the police station. The lawyer felt suffocation and then fainted as they were trying to hang him down and was admitted to Al Mataria Educational Hospital whose report confirmed injuries in his back and bruises in the neck.

 
These are only a few examples of so many that is known about abuses perpetrated by policemen, such as getting money by force, hitting, insults, torturing even respectable citizens like university professors and lawmakers, such as Yasser Hammoud, lawmaker and member of the Muslim Brotherhood who was beaten up in public regardless of his social position. Those violations against helpless people are constantly increasing and no one can hit back or defend the citizens whose cases were turned into a figure for counting only. Killing over a thousand Egyptians in a sunken fury is not a crime demanding punishment. Killing three thousand people in a fire is not also a crime. In our homeland, everything is an accident because human beings were turned into a number, which makes no difference if it goes up or down.