Visit from Abu Dhabi in Police & Prevention ProgramICPC’s Police Partnership Program is picking up steam, under the leadership of Richard St Denis (picture on right), on loan to ICPC from the Surete of Quebec. In April, a consultative  meeting was held with Chiefs of Police from the Montreal region to discuss the emerging priorities of the program. And at the end of May, ICPC hosted a delegation from the Police Department of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi has recently established a community policing and social intervention service, and their officials were very interested to learn about ICPC’s program and to visit Canadian and Quebec community policing, prevention and training programs.
One of the areas of interest in both of these recent events was the possibility that ICPC might organize an international prize for preventive policing. This suggestion will be the subject of more consultation in the upcoming months, and if the interest remains high, may be proposed to the ICPC governing bodies at the Paris meetings and Colloquium at the end of November, 2004. In the meantime, we invite anyone interested in the idea of such a prize to make their interest and suggestions known to us, by emailing Richard St-Denis at richard.stdenis@surete.qc.ca . DELEGATION OF UNITED ARAB EMIRATES IN MISSION TO CIPC
FROM MAY 25 TO JUNE 6, 2004
We were honoured to welcome a Delegation of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi Police. This mission had two objectives: An agreement to participate as a member of ICPC, and an information visit to different levels of Police in Quebec and Canada.
The Delegation consisted of:
Lt. Col. Najem Abdalla Sayar Al Hosani, Chief of Mission
Major Thani Batti Thani Al-Shamsi
Lt. Kaalid Al Daheir
Ms. Shaikha Mohammed Al Sharifi
Ms. Mowza Mohammed Al Sharifi
Mr. Saeed Mohammed Al Sharifi
Terrance Hunsley, Director General (pictured on right) and Daniel Sansfaçon, Deputy Director General, ICPC, met and held discussions with the Delegation, so that the Abu Dhabi Police, within the responsibility of the Social Support Center, would participate as a member of ICPC, and on June 4, 2004 an agreement was signed to that effect. Discussions on future projects involving the contribution of Abu Dhabi Police were also held.
Mr. Richard St-Denis, Deputy Director General, Sûreté du Québec, and since September 2003, Director of the police partnership-ICPC, was in charge to organize the activities and visits to Police in Quebec and Canada, with the cooperation of the Sûreté du Québec.
The Delegates thus had the opportunity to meet:
- The Deputy Minister of Quebec Ministry of Public Safety
- City of Montreal
- Meeting on urban security
- Sûreté du Québec
- Prevention program
- Presentation of behavioural sciences section (criminal profiling, VICLAS)
- Counter terrorism Service; knowledge and description of Services. Explanations on Police structures in Abu Dhabi
- Crime-information
- Police intervention in school sector
- Quebec National Police Academy
- Community approach - citizen
- Problems solving
- Community policing Station in Nicolet
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Police Services, City of Montreal
- Prevention in urban environment
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