The role of the Dubai Police Academy since the crisis of the spread of the Corona Virus "Covid 19" has not only been limited to maintaining the continuity of studies as a leading educational institution in distance education, but it has suddenly transferred its students from the campus’s campuses to the streets of the Emirate of Dubai to participate in the first line of defense as field police officers implementing All duties and duties performed by fellow Dubai police officers and personnel.
The director of the Dubai Police Academy, Brig. Ghaith Al-Suwaidi, told Emirates Today that the Corona crisis posed great challenges in the whole world and was a reason to drain the police human resources because of the multitude of tasks and presence around the clock, so the Dubai Police Academy launched an initiative, the first of its kind. Field for candidate students "About 407 students participated in them, among them 330 candidates and students from the beginning of the second year to the fourth turned into field policemen with everything that the word implies all the tasks of the first line of defense teams, in addition to 77 students from the first year who participated in humanitarian tasks such as Distribution of F-meals R assistance during the month of Ramadan.
Al Suwaidi added that the Dubai Police Academy has joined the supervisory convoy of state institutions that have proven great efficiency in flexible handling of the Corona crisis, pointing out that the Commander in Chief of Dubai Police stressed the necessity of the cooperation of the academic and candidates students and university students with their colleagues in the police stations in field missions, and the students did not hesitate to Do their homework to the fullest.
He pointed out that students of a police academy receive daily training as part of their studies at the academy to ensure that they are fit, as well as psychologically and scientifically qualified in how to manage crises and field interaction in the streets, but no one expected that conditions put them to the test at this early age to implement new tasks even for policemen Professionals, stressing that they dazzled everyone, and were a model of commitment and perseverance without looking at them doing volunteer work.
He explained that the police station usually provides about two hundred police officers in the field, but 330 students, university candidates and academics, have participated in the first defense lines since following the administration, officers and coaches of the academy, under the supervision of the competent department in the General Command of Dubai Police.
He pointed out that the field tasks that they participate in include ensuring that the public adheres to the restrictions of movement during the national sterilization program, and monitoring violators of precautionary instructions and procedures such as wearing masks, social spacing and the number of car passengers, pointing out that they perform their role in every human being and attend and participate in educating members of the public in a way Classy, and not one of them was received.
He explained that they were initially subjected to focused awareness of how to maintain their safety and adhere to preventive measures to protect themselves and the means of self-sterilization in cooperation with the Dubai Police Health Center, pointing out that they are continuously followed up healthily in light of their eagerness to spread with colleagues in all areas of jurisdiction, including areas of concentration Workers like Al Quoz Industrial Area, and only two injuries were recorded among students and a similar recovery.
Al-Suwaidi stressed his pride in the role played by the candidates of the academy and its students, so that the non-Emirati students who were forced by the pandemic to leave their homelands took the same role there and are followed up and made sure of their safety through the distance education system that the Academy has maintained since the crisis began.
He pointed out that the academy was also keen to take its female candidates from the students for field follow-up only, without participating in the tasks due to her medical and appointments during the night period.
A distance education system within three days
Brigadier Dr. Ghaith Al-Suwaidi revealed that the Dubai Police Academy launched the distance education system within only three days, specifically on March 8 from announcing the decision of the Ministry of Higher Education to prevent students from attending university campuses and educational institutions, pointing out that field participation in the first line of defense was not prohibited Students complete their studies.
He said that the academy launched two initiatives, the first in the name of "your professor with you" and the other "Najibak" to provide all support to students around the clock, indicating that the students' times were distributed between study and field work in the first line of defense.
He added that the distance study extended to the master's students, and 15 theses were discussed remotely since the beginning of the crisis, and preparations are underway to discuss the first doctoral thesis.