Delegations Visit Police College and Crime Scene Department

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Monday, March 30th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

The GCC Security Education and Training Forum continues its activities for the second consecutive day at the Park Rotana Hotel in Abu Dhabi under the slogan “Competency Based Police Training”. The UAE is hosting this event for the first time and is organized by the Police College in cooperation with the Secretariat General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

The second training session of the forum was headed by Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Nasser Al Baker, Director of Postgraduate Studies at the Police College and addressed the general framework of competencies and assimilation capacity: The Ministry of Interior’s Model.  Dr. Bilal Khalaf Al Sakarnah, Professor of Management at the Police College, presented a paper that discussed the concept of capacity building and development for the staff members of the po ... Read more »

Using Modern Technologies to Cut Down Emergency Response Time

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Monday, March 30th 2015 [ME NewsWire]

Lt. General HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, officially inaugurated the first phase of the Smart Civil Defense Stations project in Abu Dhabi. The ceremony was held at the Abu Dhabi Civil Defense General Directorate’s Operations Room at the Qubeisat Civil Defense Station on Monday. The project is designed to boost civil defense stations’ preparedness and operational capabilities, monitoring and maintaining effective command and control of events from the Operations Room.

 His Highness reviewed the project’s key objectives, which are intended to support and develop civil defense teams’ performance; achieve emergency response in the shortest time possible; and ensure timely arrival to the incident site. This would mark a qualitative leap in the quest t ... Read more »