A safer and more secure World Cup. This is the goal of Qatar, which it has sought to achieve since winning the hosting of the FIFA World Cup 12 years ago, by providing a safe environment and security forces ready to deal with any emergency that may occur during the World Cup.

Major sports tournaments - which are accompanied by a large public presence - pose major security challenges, which prompted the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy to create broad harmony among all the security forces in the country, by conducting the "Watan" exercise, which was implemented weeks ago with the participation of all concerned military and civil authorities. forces from some countries.

During the exercise, the highest levels of readiness of all the participating parties became clear, after the plans and implementation mechanisms were reviewed according to the scenarios set. tournament, and civil bodies).

During the exercise, a move was made to the alternative operating rooms, and the deployment plan was activated, and a set of scenarios were applied on the ground, which simulate a set of plans and hypotheses that require the activation of emergency plans to confront various organizational and security events.

A carefully simulated scenario faced by the Championship Security Operations Support Force, and successive dilemmas, it proved its readiness for any possible scenario and any dilemma, and the force today is ready and on standby# World_Cup_Qatar_2022# Security_Committee pic.twitter.com/I2msDyqKuc

- Security Committee - Security Committee (@SeCommittee2022) November 18, 2022

Exchange of experiences

The "Watan exercise" aimed to embody and enhance close cooperation and exchange of expertise and experiences with the forces participating in the exercise from different countries, in order to ensure strengthening joint cooperation to implement best security practices in organizing the safest World Cup.

Lieutenant Colonel Nawaf Majed Al-Ali, Deputy Commander of Security Operations for the 2022 World Cup, believes that the tournament security operations center embodies the integration of roles, responsibilities and tasks between the civil and military authorities in the tournament, indicating that the center is connected to 150,000 cameras that display everything in the field, to facilitate decision-making. by championship leadership.

Al-Ali added - in a statement to Al-Jazeera - that the Qatar World Cup will be exceptional in everything, and the masses coming to Qatar will notice this upon their arrival in Doha, stressing that the security forces will work around the clock in order to ensure the security and safety of the masses and provide a distinctive and safe version of the World Cup. .

And in the opening theater at Al-Bayt Stadium, things appeared to be fully prepared to receive the World Cup fans tomorrow, Sunday, in the opening match of the tournament between Qatar and Ecuador, which will be preceded by the opening activities, in the presence of 60,000 fans.

Tournament security force patrols, field preparations and specific tasks .. pic.twitter.com/xxDhf5XCqY

- Hassan Al-Saei (@Hassan_alsai) November 15, 2022

Full alert

For his part, the commander of the Al-Bayt Stadium facility, Major Muhammad Saeed Al-Khayarin - in a statement to Al-Jazeera - says that all plans have been tested for several years, and many modifications have been made to them, and today the stadium is ready to receive the masses and all delegations coming from all over the world, indicating that all experiences Qatar's preparations are on full alert to host a distinguished version of the World Cup, enjoying security in all its aspects.

The Qatari authorities are also working to anticipate daily risks and threats during the World Cup, by allocating a unit to anticipate risks and threats, which works daily to assess potential threats and risks and bet on prevention and containment of any security emergency during the tournament, which will witness the visit of more than a million people to Doha.

The Security Committee for Security and Safety Operations of the # World Cup # Qatar 2022 publishes a video to test the readiness of the forces for all risks, confirming their readiness to organize the most secure tournament @ SeCommittee2022 pic.twitter.com/k6aq8WXWgO

- Al-Kass channels (@alkasschannel) November 14, 2022

negotiation team

The leader of the negotiation team in the Championship Security Operations Committee, Major Abdullah Sultan Al-Ghanim, said - in a statement to Al-Jazeera - that his team possesses high negotiation skills that help the team in the events that require its participation in it, explaining that the team trained in many different scenarios.

Al-Ghanim added that the participation in the "Watan exercise" was one of the most important exercises that demonstrated the team's readiness to deal with any emergency, after its success in all the tests included in the exercise, as the team members proved their ability to deal with various and complex scenarios.