KUWAIT CITY, Aug 28: First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Talal Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, stressed Sunday, the need to increase security and traffic presence around the clock throughout the country to deal immediately with any negative phenomena. This came during Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled chairing a security meeting with a number of assistant undersecretaries, in the presence of Interior Undersecretary Lieutenant General Anwar Al-Barjas, the General Department of Relations and Security Media at the ministry said in a press statement.

The meeting tackled security and traffic plans that are being implemented and the results of the intensive security and traffic campaigns carried out by the ministry against violators and outlaws, the statement added. Sheikh Talal called for the need to concerted efforts among sectors, intensifying security follow-up and dealing firmly with anyone who might tamper with the security of the country. At the same time, he appreciated the ministry’s tireless efforts. In another development, Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled has emphatically said that no individual is immune to law or above the law and those who believe otherwise are mistaken, reports Al-Jarida daily.

The minister said this when he went to offer his condolences to the family of one of the young men who died in a tragic accident on Thursday following a collision between two fourwheel drives. “Any person, regardless of their status or position, who assumes they are beyond the reach of the law is deluding himself/herself,” the minister asserted. (KUNA)