Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Monday, April 7th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) honored the Ministry of Interior (MoI) who is representing the UAE for the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), in both planning and technical committees of open geospatial specifications, through the efforts made by the Geographic Information System Security Center (GIS) in Abu Dhabi police. The recognition comes as an appreciation of the outstanding role it played in heading the workgroup specialized in police, public safety and internal security; enriching it’s work related to specifications of geographical information structure for law enforcement purposes; generalizing geospatial security applications and software; and unifying the technical description standards of security mapping, in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the Consortium’s establishment.

Major General Ahmed Nasser Al Raisi, Director General of Central Operations of Abu Dhabi Police, received the commemorative shield on behalf of the Ministry of Interior on this occasion from HE Eng. Mark Reichardt, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Open Geospatial Consortium, during the periodic quarterly meeting of the planning and technical committees in the Washington D.C.

Director General of Central Operations also received the shield of excellence in leading institutional police geographical systems from the American Lockheed Martin Company who is the main host of the current quarterly periodic meeting and the co-head of the workgroup. Receiving the shield mark the appreciation for the productive role of the Ministry of Interior in the field of security and public safety as per the technical standards set by the consortium. It also refers to the fruitful efforts regarding examining technical tests and enriching the scientific scene of the consortium in the field of security and police departments’ collaboration.

It is worth mentioning that the UAE has hosted the meetings of the technical and planning committees in Abu Dhabi for the first time in the MENA region in March last year. It was heavily attended by scientists, engineers, technician and representatives of public and private sectors from various parts of the world, with a distinguished participation in the inauguration of the conference by the representatives of the geospatial data initiative of Abu Dhabi, in coordination and active partnership with the Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre.

The participating organizations and foundations that are members of the consortium hailed the level of support and development in the UAE in the field of geographical information systems. Hosting the event was hailed as well in appreciation of the efforts made by the GIS Center of the Ministry of Interior for the developing and leading the consortium’s workgroup of international police, public safety and internal security.

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