The Police Academy offers a four-year program which includes: security administration, criminal investigation, military drills, civil defense, fire fighting, forensic medicine, communications, cryptology, first aid, sociology, anatomy, and foreign languages (French and English).

Also included are: political orientation, public relations, and military subjects (such as infantry and cavalry training), marksmanship, leadership, and field exercises.

The academy's three-month course for enlisted personnel is conducted in a military atmosphere but emphasizes police methods and techniques.

[2] [citation needed] The Tourism and Antiquities Police cover tourist destinations like historical sites, museums, hotels, etc.

in Cairo, Alexandria – Qaitbay Citadel and the Serapium Temple and Pompey's Pillar, etc., going through all cities in Egypt carrying same weapons as law enforcement police.

An extensive modernisation drive has ensured that these vehicles are equipped with wireless sets in communication with a central control room.

Traffic Police vehicles generally also have equipment like speed radars, breath analysers and emergency first aid kits.

According to one source (csmonitor.org), the Egyptian police, "once feared by civilians, are now seen as leftover elements of Mubarak's regime and treated with little respect.

The police, along with the military, had made it clear that they were with anti-government protestors by carrying out a coup d'état on 3 July.

The August 2013 Rabaa massacre by police to remove pro-government protesters from sit-ins being held in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda Square in support of President Mohamed Morsi resulted in rapidly escalating violence that eventually led to the death of over 900 people, with at least 3,994 injured.

[7] According to writer Ahdaf Soueif, since 2005 the police have routinely grabbed women protesters and torn "their clothes off and beat them, groping them at the same time.

To protect against this, many female protesters wear "layers of light clothing, no buttons, drawstring pants double-knotted".