Summary
An office of the Egyptian Administration’s Interior and Public Security Administration in Gaza, mandated by the Gaza Executive Council in 1960 to centralise individual criminal records and respond to requests for them, regularising the transfer of file information in and out (Governing Gaza, PDF p.73 / printed p.56).
Details
- Police and court officers provided information to the bureau; courts were ordered to forward judgments in capital cases, judgments for imprisonment of six months or more, and judgments for a specified list of other crimes (PDF p.73 / printed p.56).
- Charge sheets were registered, numbered in sequence, and sent to the head of the alphabetical filing department to search for the accused’s criminal records, so new individual criminal files were created from court and police records (PDF p.73 / printed p.56).
- Bureau content was available, for certificates of conduct, “upon request of the convicted person or request by public authority [sulta ‘amma]”; certificates would not list judgments overturned on appeal or judgments where punishment did not exceed six months and no other crimes were listed (PDF p.73 / printed p.56).
- Its retention rules kept registers of charge sheets and fingerprints permanently, while registers of requests for certificates and of the certificates themselves were kept only two years, since the second-order files could be re-created from the primary data (PDF p.77 / printed p.60).