Capital Police Act

The Capital Police Act (Arabic: قانون شرطة العاصمة qānūn shurṭat al-‘āṣimah) is an act passed on 20 April 1991 by the Arab Congress, which mandated for the creation of a civilian police force responsible for the newly created federal capital, Nasser City. The force, called the Nasser City Police Service, would be answerable to the Nasser City Council's Ministry of Interior, and responsible for all law enforcement matters in Nasser City which do not fall under federal jurisdiction. The reason for the necessity of the legislation is that Nasser City, as the federal capital, does not fall within the jurisdiction of any of the union's 20 republics and therefore the republics' national police agencies; 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.