Italy to establish Training Center at Egyptian police academy

CAIRO – 21 September 2017: The Egyptian police academy has signed a new protocol with the Italian Interior Ministry to establish an International Training Center funded by Italy and Europe at the police academy in Cairo. The Training Center will organise workshops to train African policemen in securing borders, managing migration affairs, and combating trafficking, said the Assistant of the Minister of Interior and the Head of Police Academy Ahmed El-Amry.

Italy seeks, through that center, to exploit human and financial potentials of the police academy and its leading to do vocational training courses for the security personnel in African countries, added El-Amry.

On September 13, Egypt's Ministry of Interior signed a joint training protocol with Italy's interior ministry in Rome on organised crime and illegal immigration.

According to the protocol, 360 policemen from 22 African countries will be trained in the latest methods to fight organised crime and illegal immigration under the supervision of Egyptian, Italian and European trainers.

New Italian Ambassador to Egypt Giampaolo Cantini has arrived to Egypt on Wednesday evening, September 13, after a year of withdrawal to assume his post, citing progress in the cooperation of investigating the 2016 murder of the Italian post-graduate student in Egypt.