Capital Police Act

The Capital Police Act, 1991 (Arabic: قانون شرطة العاصمة ١٩٩١ qānūn shurṭat al-‘āṣimah ‘ām alf wa-tis‘ah mi’ah wa-wāḥid wa-tis‘ūn) is an act passed on 20 April 1991 by the Arab Congress, which mandated for the reform of the Nasser City Police Service by merging all other local law enforcement agencies in the capital (such as the airport police) with the Nasser City Police, a civilian police force created for the federal capital of Nasser City in May 1975, shortly after its official opening following the relocation of the Government of the Arab Union to the city. The force, answerable to the Nasser City Council's Ministry of Interior, is responsible for all law enforcement matters in Nasser City which do not fall under federal jurisdiction. The reason for the necessity of the municipal police force is that Nasser City, as the federal capital, does not fall within the jurisdiction of any of the union's 20 republics and therefore nor the republics' own national police services; as such, the Nasser City Police Service handles all civilian law enforcement for the population of Nasser City not federal in nature, like the National Police of a particular republic.