Egypt purges police force

EGYPT fired nearly 600 top police officers as part of cleansing the discredited and widely unpopular force.

The move, announced by Interior Minister Mansour el-Issawi, meets a key demand by protesters camping out at Cairo’s central Tahrir Square.

The protesters want the police force to be purged of Mubarak loyalists and officers involved in the killing of nearly 900 protesters during the January 25-February 11 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak’s regime in February.