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National Police Day is a national holiday in Egypt that occurs each year on 25 January.The holiday commemorates and is a remembrance for 50 police officers killed and more wounded when they refused British demands to hand over weapons and evacuate the Ismaïlia Police Station on 25 January 1952. The British Army surrounded the police station then brought tanks in and took over the station.

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