UAE | Environment

Police on alert for environmental danger

Keeping the environment clean and free from hazardous materials is a top priority for police, according to a senior official at the police directorate.

  • WAM
  • Published: 01:26 February 17, 2008
  • Gulf News

Abu Dhabi: Keeping the environment clean and free from hazardous materials is a top priority for police, according to a senior official at the police directorate.

Brigadier Ahmad Nasser Al Reesi, Director General of Central Operations at Abu Dhabi Police, said that under the directives of Lt Gen Shaikh Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Interior, the police are always prepared to deal with accidents which may cause the spread of hazardous material damaging to the environment.

The professionalism and technical expertise the police have obtained are strong enough to face any such situations, Al Reesi added.

Meanwhile, Brigadier Khalid Abdul Latif Al Dousiri, Director of Emergency and Public Safety at Abu Dhabi Police, said that the police's environmental protection equipment is the first of its kind in the region. This equipment is capable of containing any hazardous fallout caused by leaked chemicals, poisonous gas and inflammable liquids.

Lt Col Mohammad Abdullah Al Nuaimi, Chief of the technical rescue and fast intervention department at Abu Dhabi Police, said that the fleet of vehicles equipped with the machinery is always on alert in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain, and similar vehicles will soon be dispatched to the western region.

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