Cairo Metropolitan Police Service

The Cairo Metropolitan Police Service (Arabic: جهاز الشرطة المتروبوليتاني للقاهرة gehāz esh-shorṭeh el-metrōbōlītānī lel-qāhirah) is the civilian police agency for the Cairo, capital of the Egyptian Arab Republic and the most populous city of the Arab Union. It is responsible for all civilian law enforcement operations within the City of Cairo and its incorporated districts, which is coterminous with Cairo Governorate. The Egyptian National Police is headquartered in Cairo, but generally limits its activities within the city to the security of Egyptian government agencies, only involving itself in local policing operations which fall under republican jurisdiction; similarly, national security operations and protection of federal government and military installations within the city are handled by military police formations, which also guard Cairo's two international airports in cooperation with the Joint Security Committee's “J” Directorate. However, the Cairo Metropolitan Police is by far the largest law enforcement agency operating in Cairo, handling the vast majority of public security operations and criminal investigations; republican and federal agencies operating in the city are also normally assisted by local units of the Cairo Metropolitan Police, as is the norm between law enforcement agencies throughout the Arab Union.

The Cairo Metropolitan Police Service is led by Chief of Cairo Police Abdel Raouf Lahoury, appointed July 2018 by Mayor of Cairo Atef Abdel Hamed to whom he answers via Superintendent of Public Security and Police Youssef Bekae and Cairo Board of Police Chairman Dr. Ibrahim Yunani.

The Cairo Metropolitan Police Service has 11,409 sworn officers, and an additional 5,100 administrative support staff. Its area of jurisdiction covers 3,085 km2 and a resident population of approximately 11.45 million, with a weekday daytime population regularly exceeding 20 million due primarily to the commuting labour force from the massive surrounding urban region. It is the seventh-largest civilian law enforcement agency in the Arab Union by number of personnel and sixth-largest by budget size.