Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh in Cairo reports that Shafiq has referred the question of the contentious trials of policemen arrested during and after last year's revolution to the judiciary. 

He has also said that it is "obvious" that the old regime will not be reproduced, and, in response to a question alleging that he was still allied to it, he responded by telling the questioner that Egyptians need to "grow up" and drop this issue, because all of Egypt was "associated with" the old government.