RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian Ministry of Interior in Ramallah this month began accepting licensing requests from potential security companies, and has launched a process to regulate existing ones.
“The government’s decision to license private security companies is aimed at easing the pressure on the police, because it's impossible to deploy police officers to guard public places such as parks, shopping places, universities, institutions and banks," Abdel Nasser al-Sairafi, head of the licensing committee at the Interior Ministry, told Al-Monitor.