In the presence of Excellency Brig. Jamal Bin Aadid AlMheiri, assistant director general for resources and support services, lectures session of second batch of trainer’s professional diploma, held in association with Sharjah University, was inaugurated. Trainer’s professional diploma aims to provide the participants with necessary knowledge, skills and behaviors required by trainers to conduct and deliver training courses and impart knowledge to others, as per Dubai Civil Defense development plans and strategy.

Diploma sessions inauguration ceremony was attended by Captain Omer Hamid Almarri, acting director of training department and Lady Zainab Alnuaimi. In charge of International License Unit at Ongoing Learning and professional development center of Sharjah University.

Brig. AlMheiri, emphasized that held program contribute in directing and guiding participants to practice their roles in untraditional ways encompassing innovative methods set to enhance development opportunities and achieving Dubai Civil Defense GHQ goals, our thanks and appreciation is extended in advance to Sharjah University for their huge cooperation in the field of training to ensure development sustainability in different areas.

Excellency Maj. Gen. Expert Rashid Almatrooshi, director general of Dubai Civil Defense reviewed “Quality Management System Internal Auditing training course- ISO 9001-2015”, which was organized by GHQ, as part of his leadership role and dedication to follow-up training courses that contribute in improving the qualifications and competencies of employees in different professional aspects in order to promote growth and increase productivity and assured customers satisfaction. 

Held training course aims to provide participants with necessary practical training required for performing internal auditing process, knowing and describing internal auditor responsibilities, internal auditing role in preserving and maintaining quality management system, understanding and analyzing ISO standard 9001, and ways to convert requirements into practical reality.  Five days long training course was delivered by Dr. Adel Farraj.

Excellency Maj. Gen. Expert Rashid Thani Rashid Almatrooshi, director general of Dubai Civil Defense, received at his office a high ranking delegation from London Metropolitan Police, comprises Andrew Chalmers, Deputy Senior Investigating Officer, and Matt Bonner, Detective Chief Inspector, senior investigator of Grenfell Tower fire. 

The purpose of the visit is to learn from Dubai Civil Defense vast experiences in the field of incidents and hazards protection, ways of dealing with high-rise fires, particularly Address Downtown Hotel fire incident took place in 2015, which was handled in a very professional and efficient way by Dubai Civil Defense personnel, reflected in fast response, skilled suppression operations and effective management of the incident scene, as fire squads managed to safely evacuate more than 3000 hotel guests and visitors in a record time, and cardoon the vicinity, as compared to Grenfell tower fire incident that led to 72 victims from different nationalities, in the north of Kensington, west capital city London in 2018.

Both parties carried out  benchmark study for Dubai Civil Defense procedures adopted in how to handle fire incidents, focusing on Address hotel fire incident comparing to Grenfell tower fire incident in London, evacuations procedures followed in both fire incidents, preventive procedures, awareness campaigns, evacuation drills, buildings installed fire systems, ways of dealing with old buildings, external cladding systems, and implementation of artificial intelligence in predicting potential risks and vulnerable incidents, as well as fire causes.

Almatrooshi illustrated to the visiting delegation major points stood behind Dubai Civil Defense excellence and its vast accumulated experiences that made it outstanding fire and rescue authority across the region, ranging from implementing advanced force entry tactics to identifying intervention speed and complete readiness to respond to different scenarios, through its various sectors of suppression, evacuation, logistic support required to control the situation and firefighters safety, and they were together the main reasons of the success witnessed in controlling 60 story Address hotel fire and ensuring safety in a record time, managing the crowd  and post incident period, which has positively reflected UAE reputation in crisis management and achieved  customers satisfaction.

He also pointed to the distinguished seven star Civil Defense fire stations, which hosting motivated working environment for firefighters, established according to futuristic vision and analytical studies.

He also demonstrated ways of enhancing lives and properties protection adopted in Dubai through utilizing latest systems and applications, accelerators and artificial intelligence, and through 24x7 monitoring system which helped to achieve sharp reduction in fire incidents.

High ranking delegation reviewed the systems applied in DVD’s central operations room, which considered as the best of its kind in the region in respect of its sophisticated equipment and apparatuses and the role it plays in handling different incidents in record time, also reviewed UAE fire and safety Code of practices, in addition to DCD other innovative projects  and its expansion observed in artificial intelligence and implementation of NANO technology in fire suppression operations as part of wise leadership  trend for reshaping the future.

Lt. Col. Mattran Khalil Ibrahim, director general of Operations department and I1st. Lt. Eissa Khorsheed deputy director of Monitoring department were among the attendees also.

Dubai Civil Defense Continues its  raised efforts aiming to enhance breast cancer fighting operations, via awareness activities planned throughout the pinky month of October titled” We fight fire ..We fight cancer”, lies in line with the International breast cancer conquering campaign, which seeks to raise the awareness of women about the importance breast cancer early detection and encouraging them to follow a healthy life style. 

Among the stations which pink caravan stop over at was the federal authority of Human resources, where it was received by Mr. Ali Ahali, director of human resources and services department, and Mrs. Hanan Bin Naseif deputy director of Government Communication department. Next leg of the Caravan visit was Department of Economy Dubai, awareness visiting program includes guidance tips about breast cancer disease delivered by Dr. Suha Abdullbagi Tallimah, oncology specialist at Zuleikha hospital, to encourage the ladies to do screening, to early detect and control it, other essential instructions to enhance the patterns of the healthy life.