Immodest rude practices which breach public morals have widespread in coastal Tartus city that required the Headquarter of Tartus police to create a police station to control breaches of public morals and threaten peace in community.
Tartus police has chosen a city's Corniche to establish a police station specialised in monitoring and controlling immoral acts which breach public traditions and threaten people’s safety, after receiving many complaints about widespread of acts like alcohol drinking in public, taking drugs, harassing girls in streets, practicing intimate acts in parks and at sea shore, and driving cars and motorcycle dangerously, besides threatening public freedom, especially by members of National Defense Forces and others who are supported by some security branches.
The police allocated special phone numbers for civilians to contact in case of witnessing such acts in order for the police station staff to act quickly.
The police has transferred many staff to the station at ranks of first lieutenant and seconded others, besides that, the station was provided with fast motorcycles, machine guns, rifles and a 4-drive pick-up vehicle.
Activist Mohammed al-Banyasi met an officer in Tartus headquarter who said: “we have received many complaints from civilians who live near the corniche, who are originally from the city, requested taking action against immoral, immodest practices in the area and in parks and at sea shore”.
The policeman explained that the police d had chosen its position at the corniche where the violation took place the most in order to monitor the area and prevent repeating impolite and rude acts. He gave and example of an accident took place a day before when a car crashed and was driven by two drunk girls, who were arrested.
Different reactions were seen toward the police station at the corniche, some considered it as a violation for the personal freedom and indicates the retrograde of the country and law.
A girls called “Rima al-Ali” wrote on her facebook page: “there is scarcity of men in the country, who can find a man to spend few hours with would be lucky, so, why the police intervene in our freedom, we live in Syrian of al-Assad”.
Others considered the police station a positive response to the situation according to Khalid. M. who told al-Banyasi: “that step should’ve been taken long time ago, as we started getting worried for our sons and daughters, and people feared to getting out at night due to thugs' shameless parties and their open impolite acts with their girlfriends, and we the original residents of the city disapprove such acts and we know that they did them to force us to leave our areas because they know we oppose the Syrian regime, or to leave the country”.
Abo Mohammed supported that opinion, considering a single police station is not enough, the situation is bad enough to need a whole brigade, because acts at the sea shore and streets were unbearable, and establishing a police station is nothing than ashes in the eyes to absorb people’s anger
