Royal Magazine - Issue No .134-July-2013

Batch 51 ROP Take of New Part in AGCC Recruits and Interior Policewomen Ministers. Graduated

Editor-in-Chief undermines theire duty to the ROP society at timess of calamities Col/Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Jabri Contents Editorial Board Col/Mohammed bin Khalfan Addegheshi Lt. Col/Amer bin Sultan Al Tawqi Lt Col/Jamal bin Habib Al Quraishi Major/Fahad bin Saif Al Hosni

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`Agreement Inked for Computerized Customs Work

His Excellency Lt. General Mohsin bin Hassan Al Shuraiqi, Inspector General of Police and Customs signed on 17 / 4 / 2013 an agreement with a specialized company for supplying and applying a computerized customs system and a single electronic window. The agreement comes within the policy to provide high quality computerized customs services. The signing of the agreement was attended by some ROP officers.

ROP Officers for Training in UK

On 28 / 4 / 2013 His Excellency Lt. General Hassan bin Mohsin Al Suraiqi, Inspector General of Police and Customs met at the ROP Headquarters some police officers who were leaving to the United Kingdom for a six-month English course. In his speech to the officers he advised them to benefit fully from the course, and stressed the fact that Royal Oman Police cares much about training and developing its personnel to enhance further its services to the public. Maj. General Sulaiman bin Mohammed Al Harthy, Assistant Inspector General of Police and Customs for Administrative and financial Affairs and some senior officers attended the meeting.

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His Excellency Lt. General Mohsin bin Hassan Al Shuraiqi received guests at the Police Headquarters as follows:

He met on 27 / 4 / 2013 His Excellency Dr. Konu Mikoria, Secretary General of the International Customs Organization ( ICO ) and his accompanying delegation. The two sides reviewed the inputs in customs work and ways to strengthen the cooperation between Royal Oman Police and the ICO.

He met on 25 / 3 / 2013 His Excellency Teng Feng, Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore accredited to the Sultanate of Oman.

He met on 25 / 3 / 2013 His Excellency J.S. Mokol, Ambassador of India accredited to the Sultanate of Oman.

Inspector Genral Receives Chiefs of AGCC Border and Coastguard His Excellency Lt. General Hassan bin Mohsin Al Suraiqi, Inspector General of Police and Customs received on 5/ 5/ 2013 the heads of delegations participating in the 22nd meeting of the AGCC border guards and coastguards held in during the period 5 - 8 May.

His Excellency and the guests exchanged cordial talks and matters of joint interest.

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Asst. Inspector General Opens Passports Officials Meeting

Major General Sulaiman bin Mohammed Al Harthy, Assistant Inspector General of Police and Customs for Administrative and Financial Affairs opened on 24 / 3 / 2013 the 4th annual meeting of the directors and heads of the passports and residence sections.

The purpose of the meeting was to improve the performance by solving the difficulties, occasional reiewing of the policies, improving the staff and standardiaing the concpts of work in all stations.

Directors and heads of passports and residence sections at governorates attended the meeting.

6 Issue No.134 July 2013 Batch 51 of New Recruits and Policewomen Graduated

A ceremony was held on 31 / 3 / 2013 on the parade ground at Sultan Qaboos Academy for Police Sciences for the graduation of Batch 51 of new recruits and policewomen. Some cadets from the Royal Cavalry and the Internal Security Service participated in the ceremony.

The Commander of the Royal Oman Navy, Rear Admiral Abdullah bin Khamees Al Raisi was the chief guest of the ceremony. The Assist. Inspector General of Police and Customs for Adminstrative and Financial Afairs, Maj. Gen. Sulaiman bin Mohammed Al Harthy, HE Dr. Khalifa bin Hamad Assadi, Governor of the Interior, walis, and dignitaries of Addakhiliya attended the ceremony.

The graduates paraded in front of the grand stand. The chief guest handed over prizes to the tops of the group.

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ROP Take Part in AGCC Undersecretaries of Interior.

Maj. Gen. Hamad bin Sulaiman Al Hatmi, Asst. Inspector General of Police and Customs for Operations represented Royal Oman Police at the 5th Meeting of the Undersecretaries of AGCC Interior Ministries, which was held in Bahrain on 22 April 2013.

The meeting discussed the agenda and the consolidation of cooperation towards improving security and eliminating crimes.

Training Program, Emergency Commanding Staff

Major General Hamad bin Sulaiman Al Hatmi, Assistant Inspector General of Police and Customs for Operations opened on 12 / 5 / 2013 the 5-day training program of the incident commanders of emergencies held at the officers’ training institute in cooperation of the USA Forest Corporations. The program is the beginning of a training cooperation to be implemented until 2015. The aim In a speech at the opening ceremony the is to qualify incident commanders as well as the Asst. Inspector General said that the program planning, logistics, liaison, media and occupational was a qualitative addition to the national efforts safety officers. for management of emergencies as it provides trained teams well-equipped to manage, respond Maj. General Abdullah bin Ali Al Harthy, to emergencies and support the local civil defence President of the Public Authority for Civil Defence committees in the affected areas. He thanked the and Ambulance (PACDA) as well as ROP, PACA USA Forestry Corporation for their cooperation in officers attended the opening meeting. this program.

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4th Stage of Road Monitoring for Samil, Thamrait Inaugurated

On 19 /5/ 2013 Maj. Gen. Hamad bin Sulaiman Al Hatmi, Asst. Inspector General of Police and Customs for Operations inaugurated Stage IV of the road traffic monitoring plan for the Governorates of Addakhiliya ( Samail ) and Dhofar (Thamrait ).

In a speech at the ceremony Col. Ahmed bin Sultan Al Nabhani, Asst. Director General of Traffic said that Royal Oman Police adopted many solutions and measures to reduce road accidents, and to mitigate their effects. Among these efforts, he added was the improving of the vehicle drivers’ skills, operating the automatic inspection of vehicles, providing ambulance service, spreading road safety awareness, and sharing information with the insurance companies.

A video film on road safety was shown at the ceremony, which was held at the Traffic Safety Institute, Asseeb.

At the end of the ceremony Maj. Gen. Hamad Al Hatmi inspected the traffic monitoring fleet.

Royal Oman Police inaugurated in 2012 the road traffic monitoring plan, which included the provision of fleet of vehicles for the governorates.

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AGCC licence within 2 months from the date the violation is recorded in the system. The car rent offices agreed to install a positioning system in their vehicles by the end of 2013 to prevent vehicle theft and misuse, and to detect Brigadier, Engineer Mohammed bin Awadh instantly the driver’s behavior. The companies would Arrawass, Director General of Traffic met on 31 / 3 be given more numbers after the installation of the / 2013 the representatives of the car rent offices in positioning system. Oman. The meeting discussed matters in relation to The Director General of Traffic stressed the need car rent and the operation of this business which to advice tenants to observe the traffic rules, to serves a wide section of customers, and then attest the contracts legally so that the Directorate agreed on some subjects: General of Traffic can be able to summon the Continue to refer traffic violations to the violators who are involved in further proceedings. tenant in long-term contracts, and the companies He emphasized the fact that all sections and concerned should pay their vehicles fines. In short- branches of the D.G. of Traffic in governorates term contracts violations should only be referred to welcome proposals as long as they serve common the car rent offices to those who hold Omani or an interests. Road Safety Technical Committee meets

The technical committee of road safety, an offshoot from the National Road Safety Committee met on 8/ 5 / 2013 at the Directorate General of Traffic, Asseeb. The committee discussed the report of a team assigned to study the black spots and running over accidents on various roads in the country, and suggestions on these subjects would be submitted to the national committee. It discussed also the application of the national committee’s proposal to prohibit driving of heavy vehicles in peak hours on Arrusail – Bidbid road, and Wadi Al Aqq road from Addasar to Aljarda were also discussed. The road design manual approved in 2010 and the physical development manual were also discussed.

The committee would submit its report to the national committee.

Brigadier, Engineer Mohammed bin Awadh Arrawass, Director General of Traffic and Head of the Committee chaired the meeting, which was attended by the directors general of authorities involved in roads as members of the tecnical committee of road safety.

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MUSCAT–The Royal Oman Police (ROP) along with the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulances (PACDA) donned the garbs of saviors and warriors of humanity at the face of the recent floods that claimed several lives, damaged properties and caused substantial damages to agriculture.

By/Kabeer Yousuf

12 Issue No.134 July 2013 When the torrential rains started One man was electrocuted and all their unleashing commotion and human lives were bodies were found after the scouring affected, the department was pressed into operations of PACDA with the support of action and deployed several choppers to the civilians. Several others who dared the aid rescue operations in areas which were wadis during the rains were rescued while a deeply affected. Five Rotary helicopters were number of vehicles were washed away. ROP arrayed over the air space of the sultanate successfully rescued a woman surrounded by to speed up the operations of search, rescue overflowing wadi in Muscat, as well as, a man and transfer of emergency cases. One of them in Ibri. A family of 8 had a dramatic escape was placed in and the others are in in Saham in Northern Batinah when their , and elsewhere. One of the helicopters house was surrounded by rising flashfloods successfully transferred a pregnant woman in but they lost a one-year-old baby from the the Wilayat of Yankul to Ibri hospital, besides mother’s hands. The baby’s body was found saving several lives. later. In Ibri, 41 girl students of Ibri College of Applied Sciences had a narrow escape when “We received hundreds of calls for rescue the bus they were travelling was caught up from various Wilayats during the days of in flashfloods in the afternoon. Their bus was rains and flashfloods”, Lt Colonel Hamad al overturned as the driver lost control in the Hamadi, Public Authority for Civil Defence gushing water. They were rescued by the Civil and Ambulances (PACDA) said. “An infant, two Defence and local people and were said to youngsters aged 14 and 16, and a 60-year have no injuries. old man were washed away when the wadis overflowed after the incessant rains inundated In Al Khoud, 5 Omanis were saved from the parts of various wilayats”, he added. car they were traveling when it lost control in a flooding wadi.

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Roads were closed between Batnah region and Muscat, Batinah region and Dhahirah region and Sharqiya. Dhakhiliya and Quryat also bore the brunt of lightning rains. In Wadi Quryat, one man had a narrow escape when his car was surrounded by water from all sides.

In Dhahirah region alone, as many as 25 people were rescued in several wilayats in various circumstances and at times the ROP airlifting service was pressed to rescue the citizens and residents from flashfloods.

The Public Authority of Civil Defence and Ambulance received a flurry of rescue calls from various parts of the country to which the Defence personnel responded promptly and effectively, according to Dr Khalid bin Hilal al Siyabi, Assistant Head, Training Department, PACDA.

“Our dedicated call centres received a large number of calls from various governorates during those days to which we extended our rescue operations effectively”.

The Al Nahda Hospital in Muscat was partly affected as the deep gorge right in front of the hospital overflowed. Several patients were shifted to either Khoula Hospital or Sultan Qaboos University Hospital (SQUH).

14 Issue No.134 July 2013 “We have shifted the acute emergency cases The Muscat Municipality and its counterparts to other hospitals including Khoula Hospital and in all the regions were pressed in to action and SQUH. We wouldn’t be admitting emergency several civic men and vehicles were seen working patients while critical cases will be attended to by hard to clean the sludge and mud from the roads in our doctors today and tomorrow”, Dr Mahmood al order to ease traffic. The Municipality workers in all Rahbi, Head of Emergency Department said. the governorates were well prepared and were on duty clearing the roads and pavements late nights Heavy rains due to a low pressure system built on these during the rains. over the Sultanate of Oman coupled with strong winds had also made the seas rough. Onlookers Lieutenant Colonel Hamed said the Defence reported that several flying objects damaged the Force had beefed up its preparations to tackle any parked vehicles at various parts of the city. Traffic untoward incidents. “We monitored the situation on the Rumaila Street in Wattayah was completely round the clock and our personnel were ready stopped due to a huge ready-to-fall billboard from round the clock for any untoward incident”. the BLS building near Volkswagen showroom. ROP officials also stopped vehicles from entering the The Department of Meteorology and Air Shatti Qurum Beach road as part of precautions in Navigation (DGMAN) which monitors the weather the afternoon on the second day of the rains. situation in the country updated the people through various media outlets with live interviews on radio.

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Food for Thought

- There are five rings on the Olympic flag - Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space - John Logie Baird invented the television - Margaret Mitchell wrote the novel ‘ Gone with the wind’ - Alaska is the largest state in the USA - IMF stands for International Monterey Fund - Alexander Dumas wrote the novel ‘ Man in the Iron Mask’ - Nelson Mandela wrote his autobiography ‘ The Long Walk to Freedom’ - Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh in 1847 Captain/Abdullah bin Said AlHarthy - Netherlands set up the world’s first chemistry lab in 1650 Directorate of Public Relations - Consumption was the former word of Tuberculosis - Aldus Huxley wrote ‘ Brave New World’ - Portugal has had six kings with the first name John - The car brand ‘ Mercedes’ was seen for the first time in 1901. - Arthur Ransom wrote the children’s novel ‘ Swallows and Amazons’ - Switzerland is divided into areas called Cantons - Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in South Africa - Martina Navratilova won six consecutive Wimbledon titles in 1980s. - Napoleon sold Louisiana to the USA in 1803

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World of Proverbs And rested his throat upon the stone bottom, i o And where the water had dripped from the tap, in a 1. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. small clearness, 2. Actions speak louder than words. He sipped with his straight mouth, 3. All good things come to an end. Softly drank through his straight gums, into his slack 4. All’s well that ends well. long body, 5. All roads lead to roam. Silently. 6. All that glitters is not gold. Someone was before me at my water-trough, And I, like a second comer, waiting. 7. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 8. All’s fair in love and war. He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do, And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do, 9. As you make your bed, you must lie in it. And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and 10. A bad workman always blames his tools. mused a moment, 11. Barking dogs seldom bite. And stooped and drank a little more, 12. Beauty is only skin deep. Being earth-brown, earth-golden from the burning 13. Beggars can’t be choosers. bowels of the earth On the day of Sicilian July, with Etna smoking. 14. Better late than never. The voice of my education said to me 15. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t He must be killed, know. For in Sicily the black, black snakes are innocent, the 16. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. gold are venomous. 17. Clothes do not make the man. And voices in me said, If you were a man 18. Cowards die many times before their deaths. You would take a stick and break him now, and finish him 19. A creaking gate hangs long. off. 20. Cross the stream where it is shallowest But must I confess how I liked him, How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to The Lamb drink at my water-trough And depart peaceful, pacified, and thankless, By William Blake Into the burning bowels of this earth? Little Lamb who made thee Was it cowardice, that I dared not kill him? Was it Dost thou know who made thee perversity, that I longed to talk to him? Was it humility, to feel so honoured? Gave thee life & bid thee feed. I felt so honoured. By the stream & o’er the mead; And yet those voices: Gave thee clothing of delight, If you were not afraid, you would kill him! Softest clothing wooly bright; And truly I was afraid, I was most afraid, But even so, Gave thee such a tender voice, honoured still more That he should seek my hospitality Making all the vales rejoice! From out the dark door of the secret earth. Little Lamb who made thee He drank enough Dost thou know who made thee And lifted his head, dreamily, as one who has drunken, Little Lamb I’ll tell thee, And flickered his tongue like a forked night on the air, so black, Little Lamb I’ll tell thee! Seeming to lick his lips, He is called by thy name, And looked around like a god, unseeing, into the air, For he calls himself a Lamb: And slowly turned his head, And slowly, very slowly, as if thrice adream, He is meek & he is mild, Proceeded to draw his slow length curving round He became a little child: And climb again the broken bank of my wall-face. I a child & thou a lamb, And as he put his head into that dreadful hole, We are called by his name. And as he slowly drew up, snake-easing his shoulders, Little Lamb God bless thee. and entered farther, A sort of horror, a sort of protest against his withdrawing Little Lamb God bless thee. into that horrid black hole, Deliberately going into the blackness, and slowly D. H. Lawrence Snake by drawing himself after, A snake came to my water-trough Overcame me now his back was turned. On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat, I looked round, I put down my pitcher, To drink there. I picked up a clumsy log In the deep, strange-scented shade of the great dark And threw it at the water-trough with a clatter. carob-tree I came down the steps with my pitcher And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was at the trough before me. He reached down from a fissure in the earth-wall in the gloom And trailed his yellow-brown slackness soft-bellied down, over the edge of the stone trough

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I think it did not hit him, door; - But suddenly that part of him that was left behind This it is, and nothing more,’ convulsed in undignified haste. Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no Writhed like lightning, and was gone longer, Into the black hole, the earth-lipped fissure in the wall- `Sir,’ said I, `or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; front, But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came At which, in the intense still noon, I stared with fascination. rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber And immediately I regretted it. door, I thought how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act! That I scarce was sure I heard you’ - here I opened wide I despised myself and the voices of my accursed human the door; - education. Darkness there, and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there And I thought of the albatross wondering, fearing, And I wished he would come back, my snake. Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to For he seemed to me again like a king, dream before; Like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld, But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no Now due to be crowned again. token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords word, `Lenore!’ Of life. This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, And I have something to expiate: `Lenore!’ A pettiness. Merely this and nothing more. The Raven By Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, Edgar Allan Poe Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak `Surely,’ said I, `surely that is something at my window and weary, lattice; Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery lore, explore - While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; tapping, - As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber ‘Tis the wind and nothing more!’ door. Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and `’Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, `tapping at my chamber flutter, door - In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of Only this, and nothing more.’ yore. Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon or stayed he; the floor. But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to chamber door - borrow Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost door - Lenore - Perched, and sat, and nothing more. For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, Nameless here for evermore. By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple wore, curtain `Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,’ I said, `art Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt sure no craven. before; Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood nightly shore - repeating Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian `’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber shore!’ door - Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’ Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning - little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door - Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as `Nevermore.’

18 Issue No.134 July 2013 But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke enchanted - only, On this home by horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore - That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I outpour. implore!’ Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’ fluttered - `Prophet!’ said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have devil! flown before - By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown both adore - before.’ Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Then the bird said, `Nevermore.’ Aidenn, Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named `Doubtless,’ said I, `what it utters is its only stock and Lenore - store, Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful named Lenore?’ disaster Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’ Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one `Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!’ I burden bore - shrieked upstarting - Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore `Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Of «Never-nevermore.»’ Plutonian shore! But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and spoken! bust and door; Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking door! Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from yore - off my door!’ What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’ bird of yore And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting Meant in croaking `Nevermore.’ On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is expressing dreaming, To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow bosom’s core; on the floor; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on reclining the floor On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated Shall be lifted - nevermore! o’er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er, She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. `Wretch,’ I cried, `thy God hath lent thee - by these angels he has sent thee Respite - respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!’ Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’ `Prophet!’ said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! - Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land

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