Qatar wins traffic awareness film award

12/15/2015 9:50:52 PM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Brig Rashid Shaheen Al Ateeq Director of Control and Inspection Department of the Ministry of Interior receiving the award from Dr Mohammed bin Ali Kouman Secretary General of the Arab Interior Ministers Council in Tunis.

DOHA: Qatar’s Ministry of Interior has won first position in an awareness film competition focusing on traffic safety organised by the General Secretariat of Arab Interior Ministers Council.

Qatar placed first in the contest themed “speed and its role in traffic accidents”. The award was announced in the 39th Conference of Arab police and security chiefs held in Tunis. Dr Mohammed bin Ali Kouman Secretary General of the Arab Interior Ministers Council awarded the prize to Brig Rashid Shaheen Al Ateeq Director of Control and Inspection Department of the Ministry of Interior who headed the Qatari delegation at the conference.

The General Secretariat of Arab Interior Ministers Council organises security awareness film contests every year whereas Ministry of Interior had won distinctive places in most of them said a statement yesterday.

The Ministry of Interior Qatar won special traffic safety film award in 2001 film award on drug awareness in 2002 third place in the UN International traffic awareness fest in 2003 third place in first international traffic awareness festival in 2005 first place in the security Media contest conducted by the General Secretariat of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers in 2006 and in the International Festival for the prevention of road accidents wherein 47 countries participated in 2010. In 2012 the Ministry added a new accomplishment in the field of awareness film competition by Secretariat of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers winning for the eighth time in a row the first place in the film on the fight against human trafficking. It added another milestone this year by winning first place in two of the five areas of competition.

The Peninsula

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