Doha: The General Directorate of Traffic at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) celebrated the graduation of two courses (traffic management skills No. 8 for other ranks) and (technical vehicle inspection No. 2 for officers), which were held from December 26 to 30 at the department’s headquarters in the southern Khalifa City.
The course (Traffic Management Skills No. 8 for other ranks) included an overview of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, the role of the General Traffic Department (traffic, stadiums, fan zones, and championship lines), and the duties and tasks of a traffic man in managing major sporting events.
The course also touched on the daily work of traffic patrols, closures and alternative plans, regulation and management of traffic congestion, emergency response, including definitions on human rights, and training on ways to deal with different personality patterns of the stadium audience.
The course (technical vehicle inspection No. 2 for officers) dealt with a number of axes, including legal concepts for vehicle inspection, mechanical vehicle systems, dimensions and axial loads, technical vehicle inspection devices, vehicle safety systems and accident relationship, and braking systems in heavy vehicles and others, as well as a practical application inside the technical examination station.
At the end of the ceremony, Assistant Director-General of Traffic Brigadier General Nasser Dorman Al Hajri honored the participants from the officers and other ranks.
On the other hand, the Human Resources Department at the MoI is organising a training course in sign language at the foundational level, in which a number of officers participate, in the framework of developing the capabilities of the ministry’s employees to ensure the readiness and readiness to organize the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
The first activities of the course, which is supervised by the office of people with special needs in the Human Resources Department, started Sunday and will continue until Jan. 13 at the Civil Defense Officers Club.
Participants in the course were selected whose nature of work requires dealing with the public in various locations, where the course aims to introduce participants to sign language and its importance and how to communicate and deal with deaf people through sign language, which depends on gestures, facial expressions, and body movement.
