Benghazi, 7 February 2013:
The National Security Directorate in Benghazi announced today, Thursday, that as of this Saturday it will take legal action against . . .[restrict]owners of vehicles with no number plates or with tinted glass. A campaign will launched in cooperation with the Department of Traffic, the Licensing Directorate and Benghazi’s Joint Security Room, according to the Libyan news agency LANA.
The directorate, the agency said, was calling on residents a to cooperate with security agencies assigned to carry out these measures so as to improve security in the city, scene of a string of political killings in recent months.
The move follows similar announcements in Misrata and Tripoli.
In the former, where the authorities decided to clamp down after the killing of city councillor Mohamed Ben Othman last month, the ban is being enforced. In Tripoli, however, although the head of police announced that vehicles without licence plates risked being impounded as of 2 February, there has been no visible decrease in the number of unregistered vehicles on the city’s streets. [/restrict]
