Assistant Interior Minister Mohamed Rateb chaired on Thursday a meeting to discuss ways of boosting ties between security men and lawyers in South Sinai governorate.

The get-together was attended by South Sinai Security Chief Hatem Amin, besides other security officials and lawyers.

The attendees expressed willingness to hold such meetings regularly to solve problems and boost channels of communications between the two sides.

The meeting comes as part of directives by Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar to reinforce cooperation with lawyers.