With the start of the new school year next week, Qatar's Ministry of Interior (MoI) has announced that all relevant preparations have been completed and that the concerned departments are fully ready to ensure the security and safety of all concerned.
The new academic year will commence from Sunday, August 25.
The ministry said that all departments concerned are ready to welcome the new academic year by taking all preventive measures. These include steps taken to ensure the security and safety requirements in schools and various educational buildings and traffic-related measures to enable all road users to reach their destinations easily and help ease traffic circulation.
The MoI urged all road users to abide by traffic rules to save lives and property, stressing the need to ensure all safety requirements in schools and educational buildings to provide a safe learning environment.
The Ministry of Interior announces the completion of all safety and security preparations for the new school year, which begins next week. #QNA pic.twitter.com/H9eGzSQ3sI
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Director of Al Fazaa Major Naif bin Faleh Al Thani, said the department's security plans for the new school year are aimed at intensifying patrols near schools.
The department cooperates with the General Directorate of Traffic and Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya) to ensure road safety, ease traffic jams around schools, facilitate movement on streets when students enter and exit schools, and ensure safe movement in those areas, he noted.
Major Naif called on parents to arrive at their children's schools early and be mindful of the change of traffic on some roads and streets due to closures.
He also encouraged motorists to strictly abide by traffic rules and regulations, avoid misbehavior, and cooperate with the police and other road users to ensure their own safety and those of others.
Additionally, the Director of the Traffic Awareness Department at the General Directorate of Traffic, Colonel Mohamed Radi Al Hajri affirmed that all preparations for deployment at surrounding intersections and roads leading to schools have been completed to ease potential traffic congestion and help ensure students reach their schools on time.
Al Hajri drew attention to the Back to School campaign, organized by the Traffic Awareness Department which educates students about traffic safety. Under the initiative, students are given gifts and guidebooks that contain information on etiquette while traveling on a school bus and getting off it, wearing the seatbelt and other traffic guidelines.
The campaign also includes guidance for teachers and bus supervisors on how to introduce students to the rules of traffic safety and enhance their traffic awareness, he added.
All ages and categories of students have been taken into consideration for the awareness campaign, according to Al Hajri. Moreover, the directorate also organizes field visits to several schools to deliver awareness messages to students and their parents.
On his part, First Lieutenant Abdul Hadi Ali al-Marri, officer at the Media and Preventive Education Section of the General Directorate of Civil Defence (GDCD), stressed the importance of the availability of security and safety requirements in schools, adding this is what the directorate is doing within its responsibility for security, public safety, and fire prevention.
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