Assistant Undersecretary for Public Security Affairs at the Ministry of Interior Major General Khalil Al-Shamali issued a directive asking all security directorates to form special teams to prevent robberies in residential areas and markets besides vehicle thefts, reports Al-Seyassah daily.
Subsequently, acting Director General of Mubarak Al-Kabeeer Security Directorate Major General Ibrahim Al-Tarrah got teams deployed in commercial complexes and entertainment centers to control negative phenomena and prevent troublemakers from bothering families.
The first phase of the security plan is being implemented at the Avenues and the mall has been divided into seven sectors to enable securitymen control the entire complex. A total of 60 officers are on duty from 7 pm until midnight at the complex, said Al-Tarrah, adding similar measures will be taken in other complexes in all governorates until Eid Al-Fitr.
Meanwhile, eve-teasing is so rampant in Kuwait that even women police officers are not spared, say sources, adding when women police officers, who were assigned the duty of patrolling shopping malls, finished their task in a mall in Sharq and were on their way to another mall in Salmiya, a group of youths chased them and kept harassing them, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily.
This led the women officers to call for support from their male counterparts affiliated to Capital governorate. Sources say the harassment continued all the way from Sharq to Salmiya. Eventually, the youths were arrested and referred to the police station in the area.
A security source said women officers are deliberately posted at malls to trap such youths.

Man swindles wife: A Kuwaiti woman filed a complaint at a police station in the Capital governorate accusing her husband of swindling her, reports Al-Anba daily.
The woman said her husband convinced her that he and his friends will set up a commercial project and made her shell out one-third of the required capital which was KD 20,000. She further said when she called her husband’s friend about a month later and asked him about the project, he said he never heard of any such project.

Indian trio robbed: Three Indian expatriates filed separate complaints at Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh Police Station on Thursday, saying two men wearing dishdashas and claiming to be policemen robbed them, reports Al-Anba daily.
The first complainant said the men stole a mobile phone and KD 70 from him while the second complainant said the men took him to a bank and forced him to withdraw KD 120 from his account after which they beat him and escaped. The third complainant said the impersonators came to the bakala (grocery store) where he works and escaped with KD 200.
The description of both men has been circulated and police say all three thefts took place within 30 minutes.