The Directorate General of Operations plans, manages and
implements the activities of the Police of maintaining public
security and safety. It plans security operations during
public occasions, national days, religious holidays and
conferences and meetings organized by the Sultanate.
The Directorate General of Operations also provides advice on
the security for public and private establishments by studying
their plans and layouts in order to prevent the risks they may
encounter after their construction.
The Directorate General of Operations also issues permits for
different events so that they may not affect or endanger
public safety or cause any harm, annoyance, or threat to the
public peace and tranquility.
Duties of the Directorate General of Operations
Laying out and supervising all Police plans of operations and
their
implementation
Predicting and anticipating all security situations and events
in order to better plan how to face them and provide
recommendations on how to prevent them.
Monitor and following up reports of all kinds on criminal and
security threatening incidents and manage to confront them
with the cooperation of formations concerned.
Planning to protect sensitive, vital and important public
establishments.
Planning to protect the important personalities.
Providing advice for government and private establishments to
be able to attain maximum standards of preventive security.
Striving to develop and equip the Royal Oman Police with
weapons, security equipment, preparations and vehicles.
Establishing emergency plans to confront all different kinds
of disasters.
Supervising and directing rescue and fire fighting operations
in co-ordination with the Directorate General of Civil Defence.
The Directorate also manages Police Aviation, the Coast Guard
Division and the other related units
Receiving applications for helicopter planes from ROP command
headquarters, stations and centres for the different rescue
operations and assisting and transporting patients and wounded
in co-ordination with the organizations concerned.
Receiving requests for transport by helicopters.
Security Consultation
These are free consultative services to protect and secure
vital economic establishments to avoid risks they may face
them in the light of regional and international developments
which rapid implications and immediate influence.
This service can be obtained by contacting the Directorate
General of Operations. The approval of the authorities
concerned (for the Private Sector) and the engineering plans
and drawings of the establishment must be provided.
