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Dubai Crown Prince honours new batch of police officers
A new batch of police officers graduated from Dubai Police Academy on Wednesday and joined the force in a ceremony that was held under the theme of national identity.
- By Alia Al Theeb, Staff Reporter
- Published: 16:58 November 19, 2008
Dubai: A new batch of police officers graduated from Dubai Police Academy on Wednesday and joined the force in a ceremony that was held under the theme of national identity.
Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai Crown Prince, attended the ceremony and honoured the 16th batch of candidate officers and the 17th batch of students of organised evening studies.
The batch included 69 graduates, 34 of them were Emiratis while 10 were from Yemen, 9 from Palestine, 8 from Kuwait, 4 from Oman and one each from Jordan, Qatar and Bosnia.
Batch 17 also consisted of 191 officers of organised evening studies. Shaikh Hamdan also honoured officers who obtained master's degrees and other officers who successfully completed their PhD. The officers belong to different departments in the Army, Interior Ministry and Dubai Police.
The ceremony started with Shaikh Hamdan inspecting the military. After that, graduates performed shows and formed the word watani (my country) to point out to this year's graduation theme, which was the national identity.
Shaikh Hamdan then honoured the graduates who came first in general results, behavior and punctuality, weaponery and shooting, military training and physical fitness.
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