MOI Launches Students’ Law Culture Awareness Program

The Ministry of Interior (MOI), represented by the Law Respect Culture Bureau at the General Secretariat of the Office of H.H Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, launched the students’ awareness program for the academic year 2014-2015. The program is organized in cooperation with Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC).

Captain Hamdan Al Hafiti, Chief of the Community Education Section at the Law Respect Culture Bureau and Program Supervisor indicated that the program targets young people, especially students. “It aims at enhancing their legal, national and social culture, as well as fostering the spirit of positive interaction with other segments of society,” added Captain Al Hafiti.

Adding further, Chief of the Community Education Section noted that the program was launched as part of the awareness-raising plan carried out by the Education Section, within the framework of the memorandum of understanding recently signed between Abu Dhabi Police GHQ and Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC). “The program is a specialized program, given the subjects it tackles and the methods used to implement them, as well as the social segments it targets,” added Captain Al Hafiti.

Captain Al Hafiti noted that school students are the largest segment of the UAE community. “Students are the backbone of the future, and will engage in various fields of work in the service of their country, to maintain its prominent stature and safeguard the security of their community,” he said; noting that the program includes 3 main topics for the current school year.

For his part, Captain Abdullah Nasser Al Dahmani, Coordination and Follow-up Branch Manager at the Law Respect Culture Bureau, underlined that the program’s topics focus on ‘instilling the law respect culture’, ‘patriotism is a lively sense of responsibility’, and the ‘Emirati citizen: Values and behaviors’. “The program will be implemented in the various elementary, preparatory and secondary schools for boys and girls across Abu Dhabi, through age-appropriate lectures; taking into account students’ intellectual and cultural capacity. It will also feature a number of workshops, competitions, and discussion panels, including workshops for parents,” concluded Captain Al Dahmani.

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