Algeria orders to step up security measures in airports, ports

Algerian government ordered to reinforce security measures in airports and ports, national police chief said Monday.

• Colonel Ali Tounsi paid an inspection visit to the Port of Algiers and the International Airport of Houari Boumediene.
• “This visit comes as part of checking up security and preventive measures adopted by border guards in the port and airport,” he told reporters.
• “I am satisfied about the level of the police and Air Algerie’s staff. We are working on reinforcing security progressively to reach the international standards,” he added.
• He believes those measures are efficient. “I am sure they can foil criminal plans.”
• The government is carrying out a program meant to set up 350 cameras and mobilise more than 1,250 policemen to foil any potential suicide attack in the airport of Algiers.