Algeria is adding 15,000 extra police officers each year over the next few years as the North African country deals with terrorism and a growing Al-Qaeda presence. Martin Evans is a historian at the University of Portsmouth and co-author (with John Phillips) of Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed.

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