Shaikh Mohammad honours Police Academy graduates

Dubai: His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, honoured graduates from the Police Academy on Wednesday in a ceremony to mark the achievements of the police force in Dubai.

The ceremony was tinged with an atmosphere of joy, loyalty, and accomplishment as several ministers, senior officials, and police officers celebrated the graduation of the 17th batch from the Police Academy.

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About 180 graduates, of whom 71 were graduates of evening studies and 109 candidates from the Police Academy, including 60 graduates from the UAE, 13 from Yemen, 11 from Qatar, 10 Palestinians, nine from Kuwait, five from Oman, and one candidate from the Republic of Guinea, were rewarded in the ceremony.

The ceremony also saw the rewarding of police officers and officials in various higher education studies, such as intellectual property, economics and trading, human trafficking, economic crimes and nuclear field.

Among the highly distinguished personnel was the Shaikh Majid Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Culture, who was honoured for earning a Master's degree from the Police Academy for his thesis about the management of security and moral crisis, titled, ‘Ingenuity in Crisis Management in line with the Vision of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum'.

He was rewarded by Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council.