PA, Germany sign agreement to establish 55 police stations in West Bank
Date: 28 / 08 / 2008 Time: 16:55
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Bethlehem - Ma'an - Palestinian Interior Minister Abd Ar-Razaq Al-Yahya
and German Representative to the Palestinian Authority Klaus Burkhardt
signed a joint agreement to establish a total 55 new police stations in the
West Bank on Thursday.

The agreement is part of a joint project of the Palestinian Interior
Ministry, the European Union mission to support the Palestinian police, and
the United Nations.

Five of the new police stations will be in Jenin, where the Palestinian
security forces recently redeployed.

Over 80% of Palestinian police stations in the West Bank currently work out
of rented buildings.

The German representative released a statement in Arabic praising "Efforts
exerted by Palestinian police in establishing a police system committed to
the principles of rule of law."

He added that Palestinian police funding, training, and other forms of
support.

The German government pledged 15 million Euros (22 million US dollars) at a
conference in support of Palestinian security and rule of law it hosted in
Berlin in June. The government says it will disburse the funds by the end of
2008.