ShareKUWAIT: Farwaniya police responded to a call about an Asian man walking naked in Khaitan. He was found to be under the influence of alcohol and sent to Khaitan police station.
No injuries in Sharq Husseiniya
Firemen battled a blaze in a warehouse made of corrugated metal that belongs to a Husseiniya in Sharq. Hilali and Capital stations responded to a call, and firemen found cooking material and foam partitions at the site. No injuries were reported.
Officer insulted
Hawally police charged an Iranian woman with insulting a public employee while on duty, along with another woman and a bedoon man who were with her. The woman refused to hand over her ID and threatened policemen to take them to court. She then grabbed the phone of a security man and damaged it. The three were taken to the police station.
Blackmail
A citizen threatened to expose a woman if she decides to dump him because he refused to marry her. The woman went to police and asked for help, especially since the man has personal images of her. The woman, after discovering his true intentions, decided to dump him. Police arrested the blackmailing suspect and he told them he only wanted to scare her and that he does not have anything that may harm her. He signed an undertaking not to harass her anymore.
GCC traffic week
The unified GCC traffic week 2018 aims at guiding motorists about safe driving, a ranking officer of the Ministry of Interior said yesterday. The week-long activity due on March 11-15 will feature various programs for driving guidance with no focus on issuing tickets, said the acting assistant undersecretary for traffic affairs, Major General Fahad Al-Shuwaie, in a statement. The campaign has already begun via the press, various audio-visual media and communication means as well as the social media. The GCC traffic week was first launched in 1984.
Car inspection
The traffic department announced that a delegation from the GCC Standardization Authority visited the car technical inspection department and checked the work procedure in its departments. The delegation lauded Kuwait's private car inspection companies as they visited one of them. Several joint issues in car inspections were discussed.
Meanwhile, the traffic public relations and awareness, in cooperation with Health, Safety, Security and Environment Department at Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), conducted a lecture on safe driving recently. Major Abdallah Bahman, Lieutenant Abdallah Buhassan and Sargent Hamad Eidan spoke about traffic men's supervision, guidance and organizational roles, and explained how dangerous it is to use the mobile phone while driving, as well as over-speeding. They also cautioned against parking in the disabled designated areas.
By Hanan Al-Saadoun and Agencies
