Kuwait, Cairo: As per the reports, Kuwaiti police have started using the use of pepper spray against outlaws and in their self-defence after recent assaults on security personnel.

This permission came from the side of the Interior Ministry, and they allowed the police to use the pepper spray according to some specific regulations in order to handle wanted criminals and in self-defence. Al-Rai quoted security sources as saying.

“The ministry is concerned about the safety and security of its workers while dealing with wanted criminals who constitute a threat to persons and property,” the sources added.

They added that the use of mace would essentially help deter the wanted offenders, who refuse to yield to police instructions after recent attacks on several security men.

The sources said that the rules for the pepper spray include avoidance of its excessive use and in cases of self-defence against outlaws.

“When dealing with a suspect or a person who is disrupting public security and endangering his or others’ lives, such a person will be notified that pepper spray will be used against him to give him a chance to obey orders and turn himself in,” the sources said.

In a few current months, Kuwait has witnessed a string of attacks on police personnel.

In 2021, one of the Kuwaiti motorists briefly seized a policeman when he tried to stop him.

Ensuing investigations indicated that the offender was a drug taker and had a bag containing a narcotic substance in his possession.

However, police arrested a Kuwaiti man after he had spiked two police officers with a knife as they were trying to control him from attacking his own parents in the town of Jaber Al Ahmad, west of Kuwait City.

In June 2021, a young Syrian man ran after killing his mother and fatally speared a traffic police officer in the area of Al Mahboula in Kuwait’s governorate of Al Ahmadi.

Dubbed in the local media the Mahboula crime, the murder shook Kuwait and triggered calls for stricter enforcement of law and more protection for police.