JEDDAH: The Grand Mosque Security Forces and the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, in a meeting in Makkah on Saturday, reached an agreement to work jointly to stop crimes and moral violations in the precincts of the Grand Mosque.
Khaled Al-Subaei, chief of the commission’s branch in Makkah, met Col. Yahya Al-Zahrani, commander of the Grand Mosque security, and stressed the need for strong cooperation between the two organizations to put an end to violations committed by some people at the Grand Mosque.
“The major problems the commission wants an immediate solution to include those caused by mentally ill people, violations by wheelchair pushers and those who obstruct the work of the mosque employees,” Al-Subaei said in a statement to Arab News after the meeting.
He said the commission also planned a number of lectures and training courses, including a program to improve communications skills of workers in the two holy mosques.
