JEDDAH: In order to enforce the Ministry of Interior’s decision to ban shisha in all cafés and beauty shops especially the ones run by women, Jeddah mayoralty set female teams to inspect these cafés.

Arwa Al-Ama, assistant mayor for ladies section affairs, said that great efforts made by the ladies section to enforce the decision.

“There are 17 inspectors in eight teams doing field visits on daily basis to monitor the violating shops,” Al-Ama said.

The inspecting team spotted number of violations since the start of the ban said Al-Ama. She added that the violators were fined according to the law.

Each team is consisting of two inspectors. Each team is covering specific area in Jeddah. They inspect shops under the mayoralty’s supervision.

“Violating shop is warned and given a grace time. If the owner doesn’t correct his business situation upon the end of the grace time, he or she will be fined with SR 100 with another grace time.

If the situation is not corrected even after the second chance given, the owner will be fined with SR 600 and given a close-down notice. And eventually the shop will face a closure if the owner doesn’t comply with the regulations,” said Al-Ama.