Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has emphasised that January 25 is both an occasion to mark Police Day and honour the valiance and sacrifices of Police personnel, and a symbol of the Egyptian people’s spirit of challenge and their ability to face up hardships.
The president’s remarks came in a speech he delivered yesterday during a ceremony held at the Police Academy Conference Complex in New Cairo to mark the 71st anniversary of the Police Day, which falls on January 25 of each year.
In his speech, the president said that Egyptians succeeded in preserving their state and their historical gains in the face of the unprecedented events that the country has witnessed, including political, economic and security fluctuations, heading towards the establishment of the new republic.
He stressed that as much as the economy cannot move ahead and grow without a strong, modern and integrated infrastructure, the homeland cannot live and survive without national security protection, hailing in this regard the civilian police’s countless efforts and highly-valued sacrifices.
The president said that during recent years, this spirit of challenge had a remarkable presence in the unprecedented events that Egypt witnessed, adding that an objective and fair look at those years would find that only few estimates expected Egypt to manage to pass through this difficult stage of political, security and economic fluctuations”.
“With the mighty spirit of defiance and steadfastness that they possess, Egyptians managed to preserve their state, protect their historical gains with their chests, reject calls for of destruction and chaos and support their national institutions,” the president said.
President Sisi also paid tribute for the patience and pride with which the Egyptians endured the path of reform and development in order for Egypt to cross the stage of danger and consolidate the pillars of the republic that we seek to establish as an embodiment of Egyptians’ dreams and hopes.
State-building, the president said, is not possible without preserving national security, with all its elements and components, just as the economy cannot take off and grow without a strong, modern and integrated infrastructure.
The homeland, the president went on, does not live or remain without the protection of national security and safeguarding it against dangers that are well known to the Egyptian people, noting that Egyptians are aware of the complexities of the region and the repercussions of that on the inside.
Referring to the developments of the international scene over the past few years, President Sisi said that such developments have brought to the whole world extremely complex events that began with the coronavirus pandemic and followed by the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, developments that have not occurred in decades and have now come to foretell major changes, on international geopolitical and economic levels.
The president said that despite the foregoing, he knows that the effects of the crisis are great, and that it causes pain to the people, especially those with limited income and the neediest groups who are engaged in an enormous daily struggle.
“We stand in support of providing the needs of families and children, and to confront rising prices,” the president said, emphasising that such support is a firm state commitment that will not change.
Elaborating, the president said that it is logical, natural and even inevitable, that the global crisis would reflect on Egypt, and have great negative repercussions given that Egypt is part of the world economy and that its integration into it has considerably increased over the past decades.
During the ceremony, a documentary film outlining the Ministry of Interior’s efforts in confronting terrorist crimes and other law-breaking crimes was screened. Another documentary entitled “Egyptian Police Up To the Responsibility” depicting the sacrifices of Police personnel in various stages was also screened.
Following the screening of documentaries, President Sisi honoured a number of the Interior Ministry’s martyrs, expressing in remarks a tribute of special pride and esteem to the families of the police martyrs and stressing that there is nothing more precious than offering the lives of the children as a sacrifice for the homeland, which is what these families did.
The president then granted the Order of the Republic to the names of a number of Police martyrs and the Order of Excellence to some police officers in acknowledgement of their outstanding performance.
