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SAUDI ARABIA – FEMALE POLICE
TO INSPECT ID’S OF WOMEN AT CHECKPOINTS
Part of Tighter Saudi
Security Against Terrorists & Criminals Disguised as Women
WOMEN police officers
are now being deployed on road checkpoints in the Kingdom to inspect the
identity documents of female passengers as part of tighter security against
terrorists and criminals disguised as females. (AN file photo)
The highway security has started deploying women officers
on the Kingdom’s roads to check the identity documents of female passengers, in
a bid to apprehend terrorists and criminals disguised as females.
“We’ll stop and inspect suspicious vehicles carrying female passengers. If they
do not allow men officers to inspect the vehicle, we’ll call women officers to
do so,” Maj. Gen. Khaled Al-Qahtani, commander of the force, said on Thursday.
“Apart from ensuring the safety of highway traffic, we are authorized to catch
criminals and terrorists, who sometimes wear female clothing to hide and
mislead security officers,” he said.
Al-Qahtani also warned Saudis and residents to stop making changes to the
insides of their vehicles to accommodate more people or for sleeping, because
such alterations could cause accidents.
“We have noticed these changes in vehicles carrying women teachers that were
involved in accidents that caused fatalities,” he said.
Several women teachers have died in recent days. In the first week of this
month, two teachers and their driver died in an accident on Madinah-Qassim
Road. Three other teachers sustained serious injuries. It was the third such
accident in less than a week. A woman teacher died and five others were injured
in the first accident on Tabuk Road, while five women teachers suffered
injuries in the second accident in Yanbu.