Algeria reshuffles security chiefs

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika conducted reshuffling of provincial security chiefs by dismissing five, transferring four and promoting seven of them.

This comes as tens of policemen protested at the President’s Office in Algiers against their bad social and professional conditions.

Algerian interior minister Tayeb Belaiz promised them to satisfy 14 demands out of 19.

Some officials were held responsible for not finding out those unprecedented protests before they had taken place.

The reshuffling is seen as an implicit punishment to the security chiefs for failing in dealing with the protests.

The dismissal decisions touched security chiefs of Oum Bouagui, Blida, Tebessa, Tiaret and Constantine. Their names are respectively: Rachid Boutira, Badis Nouioua, Mohand Cherif Daoud, Mohamed Ouahrani and Mustapha Ben Aini.

Security chiefs of Bejaia, Tissemssilt, El Oued and Mila were transferred. Their names are respectively: Hadj Krazdi who were transferred to Oum Bouagui, Mohamed Chakour who was appointed in Blida, Mourad Znati who was transferred to Mila and Abdelkrim Ouabri who was transferred to Constantine.