TRIPOLI – The Ministry of Interior announced Tuesday that it would increase the number of committees to receive members of the Supreme Security Committees (SSC) looking to join the police from 25 to 37, Libyan news agency LANA reported. Majdi Al-Araffi, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, told LANA that he had increased the number of committees to offer police training because of the growing number of SSC members looking to join the police. He said that to date, 200 SSC members from Tripoli, 571 from Khums, 400 from Jabal Akhdar, 971 from Beida and 868 from Benghazi had been accepted onto training programs. He added that the Ministry of Interior would continue to pay wages to SSC members who had applied to the training committees to join the police. Al-Araffi added that those SSC members who did not meet the criteria to join the training committees for the police would be given priority in applying to other programmes that will be offered by the Ministry of Labor. — Libya Herald
