Nearly 1 million crimes reported to police stations – confirms urgent need to dissolve all parallel security agencies / militias
The reporting of 961,000 crimes to police stations across Libya since the 2011 revolution that ended the Qaddafi regime to the end of 2024 confirms the urgent need to dissolve all parallel security agencies (militias) and accommodate their employees within the structure of the Ministry of Interior.
The assessment was made yesterday during a seminar held by the Tripoli based Ministry of Interior entitled 'Security Performance Assessment and New Arrangements for a Secure Capital'. The seminar was attended and participated in by Acting Interior Minister Emad Trabelsi.
The Ministry said the seminar comes within the framework of reviewing the security efforts made by the Ministry of Interior through its specialized components in combating crime, and strengthening cooperation with the Public Prosecution.
The seminar reviewed the security efforts made and the cases recorded during the first quarter of 2025, through a comprehensive statistical analysis of crime rates, and compared them with the years 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Urgent need to dissolve all parallel security agencies
During the seminar, reference was made to the work of the committee that was previously formed to inventory all the reports recorded in police stations since 2011, where the number of criminal reports reached more than 961,000 reports until the end of 2024, which confirms the urgent need to dissolve all parallel security agencies, and accommodate their employees within the structure of the Ministry of Interior, in coordination with and support the Tripoli based Libyan government.
More than two million litres of petrol, in addition to large quantities of diesel smuggled daily
In another context, the security arrangements implemented within the Ministry of Interior's plan to combat smuggling were discussed, as the security services were able to reduce fuel smuggling, after they smuggled more than two million litres of petrol daily, in addition to large quantities of diesel.
The seminar also stressed the continuation of supporting the Security Directorates with the necessary equipment, vehicles, and equipment, and the next phase will include the directorates of: Al-Khoms, Masalata, Al-Qarabolli, Bani Walid, Misrata, Zliten, and Tajoura.
Trabelsi called on all Libyans to stand by their sons in the police institution, and to support them, as they are keen to protect Libya from crime and chaos, away from regionalism, tribalism or regionalism.
The police are there, he added, but they need the support of the citizens so that they can fulfil their duty to provide real security and secure presidential and parliamentary elections, as they have previously succeeded in securing municipal council elections.
Without security, we cannot establish any economic, social or political renaissance, he concluded.
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