Critics have been slow to warm up to the show, because the pilot isn't as funny as it should be, but by the second or third episode they've been won over by the dysfunctional family's antics, which benefit from Gad's sense of musical and physical comedy.
But Dr General Ahmed Gad Mansour, the new president of Egypt's Police Academy and assistant to the interior minister, says that the police are now working under extremely difficult circumstances.