The importance of community policing in a multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-national society as in Qatar was highlighted at a workshop organised at the Civil Defence Officers Club by the community policing
department of the Ministry of Interior.
The programme was inaugurated by Lt Col Ahmad Zayed al-Mohannadi, director, community policing department. Officers from Civil Defence, Drugs Enforcement Administration, Al Fazaa and traffic are participating in the two-day workshop.
A session on the first day hosted a discussion on “community policing and communication with local communities”.
Captain Abdul Aziz Mohamed al-Rabeea and Captain Ibrahim Mohamed Ibrahim Mabyuo from Sudan’s interior
ministry recited their experiences.
Lt Col Ahmad Zayed al-Mohannadi said the workshop aims to exchange experiences of Sudan’s interior ministry in community policing which, he said, helped a lot to improve relations between the local police there and community members.
While thanking the Qatar community policing department for the invitation, Captain Abdul Aziz al-Rabeea said the exchange of ideas between two police forces would contribute to improvement in the ways to be adopted in the community
policing.
Al-Rabeea said the community policing in Sudan is known as community and popular police (CPP) and they succeeded to accomplish many positive results in dealing with the people. Their initiatives, he said, had helped to win the support of the public for policing system.
The workshop will feature paper presentations on the Sudanese concept of community policing, major projects of Sudanese CPP and their working methods, CPP security and community groups in residential neighborhoods, comprehensive security and method of internal co-ordination with police and use of values in attracting the community members and building relations with local community.
Workshop on community policing progressing at Officers Club at the Civil Defence headquarters.
