Abu Dhabi (Etihad)
Abu Dhabi Police organized its fourth Ramadan Council for the year 2022, entitled “Protecting our children… a social responsibility” within the sixth session of the Ramadan councils, under the slogan “Abu Dhabi Police.. Security, stability and advanced community services”, which is organized by the Community Police Department in coordination and cooperation with the Women’s Police Affairs Office Abu Dhabi Police.
The council was held virtually through the “Teems” application, and the first axis dealt with social intelligence in the UAE society, in which Lt. Col. Dr. Maryam Mohammed Al Balushi, from the Saif bin Zayed Academy for Policing and Security Sciences spoke.
The session was moderated by First Assistant Hamid Abdullah Al Muzaini, researcher in the Police Legacy Department in the Department of Protocol and Public Relations, stressing the importance of Ramadan councils in reaching results for the most prominent societal and security issues and raising community awareness of the best methods to confront them.
Major Muhammad Suleiman Al-Shehhi, from the Department of Social Support Centers, reviewed the highlights of Law No. 3 of 2016 regarding the Child Rights Law “Wadeema”, which considered the child’s interest in ensuring his basic rights such as family and cultural rights, protection, procedures and measures that guarantee his physical and mental health The psychological and moral aspects, not intentionally harming him, taking into account the psychological aspects since his birth, and protecting him from all manifestations of neglect and exploitation.
He touched on the administration’s efforts in community service, stressing the interest in dealing with negatively affected cases, the most important of which are electronic piracy, extortion, electronic threat and others, and he noted the importance of building trust in the family, and enhancing the efficiency of the father and mother together, so that together they can lead the family successfully.
Major Ghaida Ali Abdullah, from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and Investigations, stressed the importance of protecting children in the virtual world from the dangers of fraudsters and scammers via the Internet, and teaching them how to protect their accounts from hacking, setting a different secret code for each account, and not downloading any files without scanning them from viruses. Captain Yaqoub Yousef Al Hammadi, from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and Investigations, spoke regarding methods of protecting children from the dangers of the Internet, referring to the efforts of Abu Dhabi Police through a number of its departments and sections concerned with children, including the Department of Combating Child Abuse Crimes in its various branches, which deals with all crimes that are committed once morest children. Concern children seriously and firmly, by taking the necessary measures.
He reviewed the risks that children face when using the Internet, which are bullying, luring by aggressors, viewing inappropriate content, losing control of personal data and addiction to the Internet, technical risks related to computers “piracy, viruses, information theft … and others,” noting To the role of parents in protecting children from dangers.
He presented 20 steps that help protect children from the dangers of the Internet, including: educating the child and talking to him regarding the benefits and risks of the Internet resulting from misuse, instructing the child not to share his personal data with others, and informing him that not everything published on the Internet is true and reliable.
