Milipol

Doha: LINX vehicle-demountable computers have been specified by the Ministry of Interior for deployment into emergency services frontline vehicles.

Ideal Solutions will supply LINX computers to help the emergency services, while providing the robustness required operating in the country’s hot desert climate, saving them significant times and resources. Ideal Solutions the sole distributor of Microbus in Qatar and Middle East will be handling the supply, installation and support for all LINX MDT’s.

Ministry of Interior (MOI) showed LINX MDT in their booth and demo for using NJM project was running all times. MOI representative had a previous visit to the UK to see Microbus reference sites where their fixed in-vehicle computers are being used on a daily basis, including with Warwickshire Police. They were impressed with the computer’s ease of communication between the control room and officers in the vehicle, providing them with critical incident data and access to the police database.

Brigadier Saleh Al Kubaisi, the Director of IT Dept of the MOI commented: “The project to supply our emergency services teams with effective mobile data technology has been an exhaustive process of research and selection to ensure our field officers get the best, most reliable solution that can adapt to their needs. The LINX computer represents a huge step forward in the way our frontline personnel are despatched to incidents, thanks to its multi-bearer flexibility and ease of use.”

Eng Mahmoud Amer, the General Manager of Ideal Solutions contributed: “We thank MOI for the opportunity where our company engineers could successfully demonstrate commitment and experience while installing an amazing product in a professional support manner that impressed and met MOI expectations”.

LINX is a ruggedised demountable tablet PC specifically developed for vehicle use and provides full PC functionality and wireless connectivity including the option of TETRA.

It can be installed into emergency services vehicles using a docking station to provide full in a rugged form factor. All Microbus products have been shown in Ideal Solutions booth during Qatar Milipol, from 25th – 27th October 2010, booth F026.

Frontline emergency services staff can access a host of applications in real time including mapping, computer aided despatch, remote database access and automatic vehicle location systems.

The LINX units will be provided with docking stations which will allow the integration into the dashboards of a range of vehicles providing easy access to the unit’s large sunlight-viewable touchscreen.

the peninsula

Doha: Community policing is the key in an era where rapid development in technology and communication tools has catalysed sophisticated perpetrators of crime, a senior security officer told a seminar here.

Speaking on the Community Policing, organised by the Ministry of Interior (MoI) in association with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Director General of Public Security (DGPS) Staff Major General Saad bin Jassim Al Khulaifi said: “The communication revolution and scientific progress has ushered in the advanced methods of breaking laws and targetting innocent people.”

This development has spurred new patterns of crime which require concerted effort to quell them and ensure the safety of citizens. Community policing will build channels of communication between law enforcement agencies and citizens, he said. The seminar was organised to introduce the concept of community policing and spell out its objectives, methods and programme to deal with sophisticated crimes. The representative of the UNODC for MENA region Professor Mohammed Abdul Aziz said the seminar gained importance in the context of constructive partnership between the UNODC for MENA region and Qatar which is moving forward in democratic process, justice, protecting the rights and freedoms and updating the criminal justice system that would preserve democratic institutions.

“Security agencies, whatever capabilities including special training and advanced technology given to them, cannot deal alone with the crimes in all its manifestations and forms. Justice cannot be achieved without active participation of all segments of the society that influence the role of police and get influenced by it,” said Abdul Aziz.

QNA