Meeting Report #6 

Agency:  

Utilities and Environment Police, Ministry of Interior 

Interviewed person:  

Officer. Ahmed Nasr, Unit Deputy Chief   

Date of Meeting: 

April 29

th

, 2002 

Participants: 

Mr. Ahmed El Ibiary, Legal Consultant 

Eng. Salah M. Abdel Razek, Institutional 

Development consultant 

Mr. Abd Allah Eliwa, Red Sea Protectorate Office 

Purpose of the meeting: 

To identify Scope of Work of the Unit in relation to 

environment protection and areas for improvement 

in cooperation with Red Sea rangers   

Main Outcomes:  

The Unit is a division of the Ministry of Interior. Also, 

it is the designated body for enforcing Law No. 4 for 

the Environment in the Red Sea area. One of its 

responsibilities is to provide the Red Sea rangers with 

the needed legal authority and power to implement 

the law.  

However, its role in supporting Red Sea rangers is 

limited, because most of rangers  activities are done 

at sea, which rests in Army s jurisdiction.      

Coordination between the Unit and Red Sea rangers 

is considered Excellent. Coordination actions could 

be summarized as follows: 

Provide the rangers with the required 

authorized personnel to enforce the 

environment law at civil areas. 

Approach the necessary legal actions against 

law violators and present them to courts.     

Enforcing the environmental procedures, for 

private sector activities as communicated to 

the Unit by Red Sea rangers.          

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