Dubai Police enrolls children of penal institutions in regular schools
Major General Ali Muhammad Al-Shamali
Colonel Jamila Al Zaabi
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The Dubai Police General Command, in cooperation with the Knowledge and Human Development Authority, and businesswoman Salma Khan, has enrolled five children of female inmates in regular schools with the start of the new academic year.
The Director of the General Department of Punitive and Correctional Institutions in Dubai Police, Major General Ali Muhammad Al-Shamali, said that the enrollment of these children in regular schools in Dubai comes within the framework of the Dubai Police strategy to empower children with their full rights guaranteed by law and the directives of the Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, Lieutenant-General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, to make society happy. internal and external.
He added, "To complement the "Let's Learn" initiative launched by penal institutions years ago to provide an educational and recreational environment for the children of inmates, this project comes to guarantee the rights of the child to enroll in school seats according to specific laws and conditions, and to issue accredited certificates to them at each stage of study they graduate from, so that they can continue their studies after return to their homeland."
In detail, Colonel Jamila Al Zaabi, director of the women's prison in Dubai, said, "There are five children who have completed the legal age to attend school, and there is no one to receive them or take care of them abroad, so Dubai Police provided them with a private housing in a separate building with special health care and nannies to take care of them, but In light of the problem of their being behind their peers during the period of their mothers’ punishment due to their failure to complete their education and obtaining accredited educational certificates, Dubai Police, in coordination with partners, led by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority, sought to enroll them in school seats after being evaluated, and put each of them in the appropriate academic stage for their level They were distributed between kindergarten and seventh grade, and they began studying at the beginning of the school year.
Al-Zaabi added, "We have made great efforts over the past two years to enroll the children of female inmates in regular schools, and to enable them to complete their education at the various school levels, in our belief that children should obtain their full rights, including their right to education, noting the role of the supporting bodies in the initiative to respond quickly and provide the necessary facilities. to enroll children in school.
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