Abu Dhabi Police team up with university to provide disaster management training

ABU DHABI // The University of Salford UAE has joined forces with Abu Dhabi Police to provide leadership and disaster management training to specialist UAE agencies.

Experts from the university delivered a workshop called ‘Achieving Leadership in Disaster Management’ on ways to handle disasters in the region such as an earthquake, oil or gas explosion or a terrorist attack.

The event, opened by the university’s new vice-chancellor, Professor Helen Marshall, and chair of the Salford UAE Advisory Board, Dr Alaa Garad, was supported and attended by the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority.

Issues covered were collaborative risk assessment environment in disaster management’, the strategic approach to emergency preparedness in the UAE, and community-centred disaster management within the UAE.