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Anti-Vagrancy Department makes 225 arrests in November
By JT - Dec 06,2019 - Last updated at Dec 06,2019
AMMAN — The Social Development Ministry’s anti-vagrancy personnel arrested 225 beggars in Amman during November, Director of the Anti-Vagrancy Department Maher Kloub said on Thursday.
The source said that 56 males and 51 females were over the age of 18, while 89 males and 29 females were younger than 18 years old, out of which 35 hold non-Jordanian nationalities.
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