Interior Minister Sets New And Stricter Control For Home Searches

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Ahmed Al-Mansour issued a circular to all members of the police force, in which he identified more disciplined mechanisms in executing orders to enter residential places, and in a manner that ensures the implementation of the job duties of policemen within the limits that preserve the rights and dignity of those against whom the arrest or inspection decision is issued.

The General Department of Relations and Security Media at the Ministry of Interior pointed out that within the framework of the minister’s tireless efforts to rearrange the security controls related to civil liberties and rights, and based on the circular issued, the concerned employees of the Ministry of Interior must abide by the following:

1. Comply with the provisions of laws, regulations and orders issued to them by the legally established authorities In accordance with legal procedures and controls

2. Disclosing their job capacity to the concerned persons and making them understand the nature of their mission and the legal basis for it.

3. Show professionalism, discipline, morals and act tactfully coupled with firmness without abuse or abuse of authority, and commitment to what maintains security and order and preserves public and private property.

4. Preserving the reputation and dignity of the job, morals, norms, customs and traditions followed in society, respecting human dignity and safeguarding public and private freedoms and human rights.

5. Not to do any inhuman, degrading and other cruel treatment or to speak in an inappropriate manner or language.

6. Taking into account the elderly, women, children, people with disabilities, special needs and victims, and responding to calls for relief and assistance.

7. Not to use force except in cases of necessity and not to resort to the use of weapons except in accordance with the legally established controls and what is necessary to perform the duty and in proportion to the situation and after taking all possible precautionary measures and exhausting all other means.

8. Accompany members of the women’s police, if there are families that include women or children in the place where the tasks and orders are executed.

9. Executing tasks and orders in accordance with the requirements of these tasks without exceeding their personal, temporal, spatial or objective limits, and without prejudice to the interest of the search or arrest or the tasks assigned to them.

10. Commitment to observe the procedural controls established by law, in particular the following controls:

• Women must be searched by a woman delegated for this by the investigator, and the inspection witnesses must be women.

• The dwellings should be searched during the day and after obtaining permission from those who occupy the place, and it is not permissible to enter them at night or without permission unless the investigator finds that the urgent circumstance requires that.

• If there are women in the dwelling, and the purpose of entry is not to apprehend or search them, traditions must be taken into account in their treatment and the inspector should enable them to hide or leave the dwelling and give them the necessary facilities for that without prejudice to the interest of the inspection or the mission and their results

 

 

 

SOURCE  TIMESKUWAIT

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