The Ministry of Interior will announce within days its new official website to communicate with citizens, receive complaints and change the image of the much-hated and now abolished State Security Service.
Assistant Interior Minister General Hamid Abdallah, director of the National Security Agency, said the new agency will be in charge of keeping national security and combating terrorism.
The Ministry of Interior has held meetings and formed a committee to select officers from among the ministry's departments to serve the National Security Agency. They will act in accordance with the law and will be selected on the basis of integrity, competence and reputation. Former State Security Investigative Services officers who were involved in violating freedoms and human rights will be excluded, Abdallah said in a statement to Al-Masry Al-Youm.
He added that legal and administrative rehabilitation programs for officers will be developed in accordance with the new strategy of the ministry.
The Interior Ministry has begun to reoccupy State Security headquarters after they were taken over by the Armed Forces, and has also formed a committee of officers to examine the buildings, Abdallah said.
The National Security Agency will begin its work in May.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
