Egyptian Study Revisits Police Role on the Home Front During October War

A recent strategic study by the Egyptian Center for Strategic Studies has revisited preparations to protect Egypt’s home front, highlighting a government decision in late October 1968 to establish local popular defence organisations.

The decision provided for the formation of these organisations across Egypt’s governorates, giving the initiative a local structure rather than limiting it to a single area.

The move preceded the October War and offers background to the wartime role of the Egyptian police in protecting the home front and confronting the enemy.

By drawing attention to the 1968 decision, the study places the organisation of local defence within the broader history of Egypt’s preparations for conflict.