It was the first return of policing control to Palestinians in the West Bank under the new peace plan.
Following Israel's pullback from parts of the Gaza Strip on Sunday and Monday, this was the first return of policing control to Palestinians in the West Bank, under a new American-backed peace plan.
"I think there is a basic understanding on both sides: 'Let's make less declarations and more troop withdrawals and troop deployments,' " he said, referring to Israel's gradual return of policing responsibility to Palestinian officers for what by previous agreement are Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank and Gaza.
Following successful student actions in support of cleaning staff, "occupational-style protests" have recently been the subject of an injunction at the University of London, turning a civil matter criminal, and recent "Cops Off Campus" demos have seen a return of aggressive police tactics in the form of physical violence, kettling and mass police presence.
While General Sisi's speech intensified Islamist fears about the return of a police state, it may well have strengthened the Brotherhood's hand.
It is not a case of the return of the police state, according to human rights campaigner Karim Enarrah, because it never went away.
The Israelis were asked to return things to the pre-October 2000 statute (removing all checkpoints since then, allowing the return of Palestinian police on the Allenby Bridge) and suspended all settlement activities including natural growth.
The program, now being expanded statewide, has shown tremendous cost savings due to the lower expense per child as compared to incarceration and has returned thousands of police hours to the streets as the officers are not spending time processing cases.
She said the initial investigation into phone hacking led to the arrest of 15 current and former journalists, 11 of whom will return to police stations on Tuesday as part of their bail conditions.
Essentially, Mason concentrated on security, aiming to return control of policing from the army to the Royal Ulster Constabulary and break the Provisional IRA by force.
