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The Ministry of Interior (MoI) has won the excellence award for its Najm security system beating more than 100,000 establishments from all over the world. |
Major Ali Mohammed al-Mohannadi, director of Technical Affairs Department at the National Command Centre (NCC), received the award from Jack Dangermon, executive director of American Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), on the sidelines of the International Conference of ESRI system users held this week at
Santiago, USA.
ESRI had declared in May that the MoI had won the excellence award in GIS for its Najm security system. The award is given in recognition of outstanding achievements and applications in the field of geographic information technology all over the world.
ESRI, based in California, is the first reference in the world for the issuance of the global standard for e-maps followed globally in all areas of GIS applications. The applications and programmes of ESRI are used by more than 300,000 establishments all over the world.
Commenting on the award, Maj al-Mohannadi said that the Najm security system had won the admiration of all who participated in the ESRI conference and exhibition.
He added: “The system was displayed to the participants and it wowed everyone in terms of system compatibility with geographical information and security systems, bringing all the security departments and institutions in a single system thus allowing transmission of data quickly and easily.”
Najm security system also won the award for best advanced security application in the Middle East Geospatial Forum 2012 conference and exhibition. The forum was held by the GIS Centre under the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Urban Planning and was attended by ministries, authorities, leading companies and local and regional organisations in the Middle East.
Najm security system ensures quick delivery of information from operations department of the National Command Centre to the security patrols at different areas of the country while choosing the most appropriate and nearby patrol to the incident area. This is one of the main systems of the ministry that connects each department concerned with safety and security, Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya) and the ambulance services of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), under one network.
On his part, Maj Arif Hassan Ibrahim, officer of Najm project, said that Najm security system emerged from the idea of a unified geographic database which connects different systems and ensures the possibility of representation of data from various sources on a single system and to display the information on a digital map. The digital maps aim to create a consolidated image of the incident improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the decision-making process.
The system has developed a unified database providing it geographical dimension as well as adding geographical location for security data. It also has ensured facility of retrieval, exchange and analysis of information helping in decision-making. It also ensures the integration between existing systems and the future ones and building a unified image of situations in joint operations.
