The Emirates Women Police Association has signed a MoU with the Emirates College of Technology to enhance co-operation in education, training, and consulting services.

The agreement is also aimed at organising initiatives and conferences to promote the association’s services to the women police sector in the country.

Major Amina Al Baloushi, the chairperson of the Emirates Women Police Association and Dr Bruce Taylor, the president of the Emirates College of Technology signed the memorandum, which includes granting scholarships to the association’s members.

These scholarships would allow the association’s members to seek a bachelor’s degree in IT; human resources management; media and public relations; financial and banking sciences and its various disciplines; and in graphic design.

It also aims at providing discounts on those diploma programs, as well as providing annual training for the association’s cadres, based on an applied methodology to study and analyze the functional skills needs, and special scholarships for computer, English, and management courses.

Al Baloushi said the MoU will provide further boost to the scientific development for the association’s members, and will upgrade their skills in a way that best serves the police work and improve the association’s services and performance.

Taylor said the college was committed to the social responsibility concept by providing educational opportunities to all of the UAE citizens; by helping out those who wish to pursue academic attainment.

He praised the Women Police Association’s role in supporting women working with the police force and in serving the community.-TradeArabia News Service