Shield of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Libya
The Supreme Security Committee (SSC) was a transitory body set up in Libya in October 2011 in the post-war context following the fall and execution of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. Its main objectives were to ensure security and to incorporate the militiamen who had taken up arms during the revolution within the state apparatus. As such, it was directly dependent on the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The Committee was always subjected to political tensions. Thus, Interior Minister Ashour Shuwail, career police, sought to reduce control of Islamist forces within the body. However, Deputy Minister Omar al-Khadrawi, close to the Muslim Brotherhood, tried to empower them.
Although it had a national scope, it was in Tripoli where its area of influence was greatest. This local branch was led by Hashim Bishr. It consisted mainly of young people and had a character of neighborhood surveillance. It also included battalions of Gaddafi's former People's Guard.
The main reason CSS failed was that its members remained loyal to their former khatibas (brigades) rather than to the state. Thus Bishr himself officialized his militia, the Revolutionary Battalion of Tripoli, converting it into the so-called First Force (Quwat al-Nukhba). Raouf Kara's Nawasi brigade was transformed into the Special Deterrence Forces (Quwat al-Rada 'al-Khassa). The militias of Salah al-Burki and Abd al-Ghani al-Kikli, two of the largest in the capital and based in the Abu Salim district, also joined in full.
In 2012 began the process of dissolving the CSS, since from the outset was designed with a temporary and exceptional. Some of its members joined the police, while others simply returned to civilian life. In view of the large number of units that refused to be dissolved, two new organizations were designed to try to control them: the Quwat al-Tadakhul al-Sari '(under the control of the Ministry of the Interior), and the Joint Force of Intervention and Deterrence (Quwat al-Rada 'wal-Tadakhul al-Mushtaraka, under the control of the Head of State of the Army). The militias mentioned above, however, survived the division process.
Politics by Other Means Lacher, W. y Cole, P. Small Arms Survey & Security Assestment in North Africa
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