Doha: The Police College held a seminar in collaboration with the Community Policing Department under the title ‘Police and Society: Safety and Security are Responsibility of All’, aimed at identifying the objectives and duties of the community police and its role in spreading security awareness.
The event is being held under the patronage of the Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani.
The Director-General of Public Security Staff Major General Saad bin Jassim Al Khulaifi attended the opening event.
The two-day event is attended by representatives of a number of General Directorates and departments of the Ministry of the Interior, Qatar University and the Protection and Social Rehabilitation Center (Aman).
At the opening of the seminar, Brigadier Dr. Mohammed Abdullah Al Mahna Al Marri said that this seminar aimed at identifying the objectives and duties of the community police and its role in spreading security awareness that contributes to the reduction of crime and the stability of the society as well as the tools to achieve social security from its comprehensive perspective.
The seminar focuses on the interactive role of the civil society with the security services in the field of community awareness and protection from the spread of destructive ideas and prevention of crime, reviewing various activities of the Police College and the Community Policing Department in the consolidation of the concepts of community police, he added.
For his part, Col. Sultan Mohammed Al Kaabi, Director of the Community Policing Department, said: “Through the seminar, we seek to strengthen the close integrated relationship between the police services and the society in all its segments.”
The first session of the seminar was chaired by Brigadier General Dr Mohammed Abdullah Al Mahna Al Marri, Director General of the Police College. Lt. Col. Hussain Aman Al Ali, Assistant Director of the Community Police Department presented his paper on “Tools for Achieving Social Security - From an Islamic Life Perspective”.
The second paper was presented by Lt. Col. Jaber Mohammed Odaiba, Assistant Director of Traffic Awareness Department entitled “The Impact of Traffic Awareness on Achieving Road Safety.”
