The much vaunted “historically unprecedented” purge of the police force may not be all it's been boasted to be, at least as far as Alexandrines are concerned. Police Major Wael El-Komy, formerly the chief of investigations at the Raml district in Alexandria has been transferred to the police department monitoring electrical power.

El-Komy stands accused of being personally responsible for the killing of no less 37 protesters in Alexandria in a single day, the 28^th of January, of the Egyptian revolution. Alexandrines were outraged at the news of his transfer, rather than expulsion pending trial. Alexandrian rights groups in say that El-Komi has in fact been promoted, and his new salary will be no less than LE7000.

Alexandria's protesters have put up a poster saying: “Kill one person you are a thug, kill 32 you're El-Komy and you get transferred to the electricity police, kill 800 and you get full-board residence in the Sharm El-Sheikh Resort.