WEEk1: Tuesday: 06-Apr-2010

Most of the girls told me that the first day at the work placement will be boring, but it was different with me. I was nervous as any new employee coming to a new work place. Actually I was shocked when I saw the place as it is full with policemen everywhere. I came at 7 a.m. and after half an hour, I sat with my manager and she discussed with me the action plan that she organized for me. I visited the HR Department; they took some personal information from me to make a notification for me to enter all the departments.
Dubai Police has 17 Departments and 10 Police Stations in Dubai. I am working in E-Services Department and it has 5 different departments which are as follows: Administration Department, Quality Assurance Department, Electronic Operations Dept., Electronic Applications Dept. and Network Management and Technical Resources Dept. I moved between those departments.
At 10 a.m., I sat with one of the girls, she gave me an overview about all the departments and she gave me some work to do in the first day because they have a lot of tasks. There are many projects that Dubai Police are working on and they are approximately 50 projects. They want to make all the departments connected together by a network. Also, they wanted to have the latest technology to communicate with the society by their website.
Now, they are working on Dubai Police website, they want to change it to have a new modern site. They are trying to find a new company with a provisional designer and they found one in USA but, they are still working on this project. She showed me the new website; it is sample and attractive because there are many services on it.
I was surprised with all of the progresses, they are doing everything with the highest technology, the attendance is online, and each Policeman takes his gun by fingerprint. Moreover, I organized the files for the projects and printed some project templates.
It was a hard day but at the same time it was a nice experience because it’s a new environment for me and all of the employees here are working to help the UAE.