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This study deals with the subject of police administration during the Ottoman period in Egypt by examining the administrative structure of the police. It focuses on the importance of the roles that policemen played during this period. How did the state appoint them? How were they able to fulfill their roles of maintaining security ? What professional responsibilities were they given?

This research also explores the process by which the police were appointed by the Ottoman administration. Did judges have a role in appointing the police or was their role limited to registering these appointments in court to give them legitimacy ?

In addition to this, this study deals with the issue of whether the police system in the Ottoman period differed from the current / contemporary police system. What is different and what has changed in this system ? What has been passed down in the police system from Ottoman times and still exists in today’s police system ?