CAIRO - The repeated theft of huge amounts of money being transported from banks to companies or ATM can be blamed on a lack of security. A few days ago, a military policeman was killed while trying to prevent an armed gang from stealing the salaries of employees in a public-sector company; he was guarding the money as it was being transferred from a bank to the company. The brave unarmed soldier was the victim of an unprofessional security agency that thought that a military uniform would be enough to deter armed thieves from attacking an ordinary vehicle carrying a huge amount of money, the salaries of the company's employees, transported every month to the company. Even if he'd been carrying a pistol, the military policeman would have been no match for a gang armed with machine guns. A few days later, a car taking money from a bank to an ATM machines was stolen in Giza, while the men in the car were stocking up the machines with cash. The lack of security since the eruption of the January revolution has become unbearable for ordinary citizens who are now busy trying to secure their personal possessions, whether their cars or homes. The Ministry of the Interior should make the transfer of money safer and secure public and private property from the armed gangs and thugs who have been having a field day in the past few months, due to the apparent absence of police. In the meantime, how will the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces be able to secure next month's parliamentary elections?
