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The Royal Oman Police recently These stations were opened as in the Royal Oman Police. They Issue No.158 November 2020
have opened a number of in- a result of the vital role played aim to train policemen and road
stallations in order to keep pace by Police Coast Guard in the users in the field of traffic safe-
with policing needs and im- security structure and its re- ty through conducting training
prove work environment which sponsibility to maintain safety courses, seminars and aware-
will assist in achieving objec- and security in Omani regional ness-raising programs re-
tives, increasing performance waters to combat smuggling lated to traffic safety, data and
efficiency, bringing services and piracy, reduce infiltration statistics analysis, extraction
closer to citizens and residents and illegal immigration, mari- of indicators identified in deci-
and providing the best services nate security and order in har- sion making, prepare and issue
professionally. bours and sea ports and control studies and researches relat-
marine pollution along Omani ed to traffic as well as raising
The Royal Oman Police have coasts. awareness and promote traffic
opened a few new police ser- safety culture among commu-
vice buildings in Wilayat of Ibra It should be noted that a num- nity members. This is done in
on the 7th of February 2021 and ber of Coast Guard centers coordination with relevant au-
in Wilayat of Dama & Al Taeen were recently opened in Al Ash- thorities. These efforts contrib-
on the 11th of April 2021. Whilst kharah, Al Dara, Dhalkout, So- uted in establishing work poli-
a police station in Al Qabil was har, Al Duqum and Al Suwaiq, cies at the Directorate General
opened on the 13th of June equipped with advanced tech- of Traffic and in increasing ef-
2021. nology to conduct duties within ficient performance, where the
high levels of accuracy and ef- impact was most noticeable in
It is worth mentioning that ficiency. achieving highest level of traf-
these Police Installations were fic safety and reducing vehicle
built as per advanced criteria Traffic Safety Institutes accidents and the resulting in-
and technical specifications in In line with the Sultanate’s ap- juries.
order to provide the best police proach to achieve high traffic
security services for citizens safety standards and to attain In addition, traffic safety in-
and residents. These buildings the most significant decrease stitutes have undertaken the
include an integrated security in the number of traffic acci- task of studying traffic prob-
centers as well as a service dents, traffic safety institutes lems that hinder the progress
centers for passports, resi- were opened in Wilayat of So- of achieving the highest rates
dence and civil status. It also har on the 3rd of January 2021, of traffic safety and propos-
includes multiple facilities that Wilayat of Nizwa on the 7th of ing appropriate solutions and
provide a suitable environment March 2021 and in Wilayat of treatments for them, as well
and is ideal for the nature of po- Ibra on the 11th of March 2021. as benefiting from research
lice work. Establishing these institutes in and studies in the field of traffic
Governorates was as a result of work by translating, summariz-
New Coast Guard Police Sta- the Head Quarter’s belief in the ing and analyzing them.
tions importance of the role played
by them in promoting traffic 7
As part of its development and awareness. They are equiped
modernization strategy, the with most up-to-date technol-
Royal Oman Police opened a ogy, in order to improve training
Coast Guard Police Station in and qualification methods.
Wilayat of Taqah on the 17th of
January 2021 and in Wilayat of Traffic Safety Institutes are
Sur on the 11th of April 2021. specialized training institutes
