You can also see it clearly in west that the on duty staff never shake hands
even smile on their face for the street walker is just for less than a second.
Many times, I also observed that they even don't shake hands with children.
So I think, all that is important for the purpose of maintaining security.
Further what I think, have seen is that the security institute celebrates eid in special style and in many cases general public comes to wish them.
The other option is that flag march and city around to get these greetings is also a sort of practice.
But I think, what this anchor want to say is not logical otherwise, the anchor person will come on the TV with breaking news.