Egyptian National Police

The Egyptian National Police (Arabic: الشرطة الوطنية المصرية esh-shorṭeh el-waṭaneyyeh el-maṣreyyeh) is the primary law enforcement agency of the Egyptian Arab Republic, the largest and most populous of the 20 member republics of the Arab Union, and the largest civilian police force in the union by both number of personnel and budget size. The Egyptian National Police is headed by a director-general who answers to the Egyptian Minister of Interior.

The Egyptian National Police is responsible for all law enforcement activities at the republican, governorate and district administrative levels, and contracts with 488 of Egypt's 505 municipalities to provide municipal policing and maintain a local police station (the remaining 17 municipalities have their own civilian police departments, including Cairo; the National Police, however, retains jurisdiction in such municipalities concerning administratively higher levels of policing, such as investigation and disruption of organised crime and drug trafficking).