WEEK (8): Monday, May 24, 2010

Today we have an early meeting with a group from the Quality department. They talked about the CESS project and they discussed new services. Moreover, I organized some files and send emails.

WEEK (8): Sunday, May 23, 2010

Today I came early because we have an inspection at 6:30 a.m. It was hard for me to leave home early but I was very enthusiastic to see the inspection and when I saw all the departments are ready and how they are working hard I forget the fatigue. Then I worked on the Electronic Archive.

WEEK (7): Thursday, May 20, 2010

Our department had a long meeting to discuss all the issues related to the annual inspection and the meeting finished at 2:30p.m. All the departments were so busy organizing their projects, plans and the statistics.

WEEK (7): Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Today, we have a meeting with our manager to decide on what are the new items that he will choose for Dubai Police marketing. He chose some beautiful items. Moreover, I called some companies to ask them about the items.

WEEK (7): Tuesday, May18, 2010

Today my supervisor told me that I am doing my work placement in Dubai Police in a very busy and critical time which will in learning and getting a good experience. Everyday I learned new things, sometimes I feel that I have work pressure on me that I can’t work on my final report because I have many other things but I am trying my best to organize my time.

WEEK (7): Monday, May 17, 2010

Today I worked on the annual inspection presentation; I collected some photos and information for it. I think we are really working hard on this project and the place here is so crowded and all the staff are too busy.

WEEK (7): Sunday, May 16, 2010

Today we received an email which is about the annual inspection and all the departments have to stay late for the next two weeks. I sat with Athwa Ahmed, the Administer Officer. She told me about the previous annual inspection and she showed me the presentations and the Lieutenant General comments.

WEEK (6): Thursday, May 13, 2010

Today, I had my last interview with Maryam Al Marzouqi who works as Multimedia Designer. Maryam is a graduate from Dubai Women’s College. I sent to her a thank you letter and she replied to me that she was happy to have the interview with me. I am so happy and so proud to work in Dubai Police and I am so grateful for their support and cooperation.

WEEK (6): Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Today, my manager gave me some files to print and organize them in folders. Moreover, I sent some mails to the other departments. I think now I am good with sending mails as I was facing some difficulties earlier in sending mails. Also, my vocabulary has been improved.

WEEK (6): Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Today I have to keep testing all the online services in the website. Dubai police has many services such as Fines & Violations, Road & Transportation Authority (Traffic Services), Security Services, Miscellaneous Services, Services of Officers Club, Companies and Institutes Services , Technical Support Services..ect

WEEK (6): Monday, May 10, 2010

Today most of our department members went to Microsoft meeting so the department was very quiet. I worked on the minutes of the meeting and I put it in the Archive.

WEEK (6): Sunday, May 9, 2010

We had a meeting with our manager. She told us that we should work harder to finish Dubai Police website which will be published after one month. We divided the work between us and my work is to test the services that we have.

WEEK (5): Thursday, May 6, 2010

Today I sent a mail to Mohammed Arif who works as a WebPages Designer in Dubai Police. I asked him when I will have the interview with him and he replied to me that he will be free at 1pm. Then, I went to CID Department and I had the interview there.

WEEK (5): Wednesday, May 5, 2010

I had my interview with Taha Hussein the Head of Planning and Community Outreach Division, he was so kind and he answered all my questions clearly. Moreover, he showed me some new services that they are planning to have and how they are marketing them.

WEEK (5): Thursday, May 4, 2010

The weather was nice today but I have to do lots of work. I designed some Power Points slides for the annual inspection, which will be presented within few weeks. All the departments were so busy because they will be assessed on that day so they should be well prepared.

WEEK (5): Monday, May 3, 2010

Today we have a weekly inspection, the men in our department were outside because they have to be in military column, but the girls were inside the department organizing and preparing all their projects to be ready to present them to the top manager. It was a tough and long day.

WEEK (5): Sunday, May 2, 2010

Dubai Police are eager to implement high quality group videoconferencing systems over their existing local/wide area network. Today the Intranet group sat and discussed the project; the system supports the highest quality video and audio. The highest quality content allows the same document camera to deliver live and interactive content at twice the resolution of traditional videoconferencing systems. I learned from this meeting how they monitor the project progress and now I know where they put their cameras :p

WEEK (4): Thursday, April 29, 2010

Today I send many mails to two persons in different departments and I asked them if I can take an appointment to have an interview with them. They were so nice in replying to me and very cooperative. Also, I worked with Fatima Mohammed, the Program Designer on the new Police website and we wrote all the comments and we sent them to the company who are working on the website to develop it.

WEEK (4): Wednesday, April 28, 2010

In the work placement I learned many new things such as the new programs and projects. Also, I learned that I should know how to deal with different personalities. Dealing with the military people is much difficult than the normal people. They have many rules and regulations in their daily work so, I have to remember their police ranks when I deal with them and if I forget that, it will be an insult for them. Today, there was a big fight for the same reason that I mentioned and I was so afraid and I couldn’t move from my chair. At the end they had a judgment panel to solve the problem.

WEEK (4):Tuesday , April 27, 2010

We had a long meeting today, all the departments were there and each department’s manager presented their department new projects. I was so happy to attend this meeting because it was a private meeting but they allowed me to learn from it. It was a very nice and useful experience to see all the presentations of all the managements and what are their goals and objectives and how they are going to achieve them.

WEEK (4): Monday, April 26, 2010

As I mentioned before Dubai Police is requesting proposals to archive all the documents, e.g. videos and photographic negatives under an Enterprise Archiving Solution. Today I worked also on the Electronic Archive in the General Administration of financial. The archived data should be organized so there are a large team who are working to update the information and am learning from it.

WEEK (4): Sunday, April 25, 2010

Today, I worked on the Electronic Archive. It is a huge project which will help Dubai Police to finish their work in a short time. The Major General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim wants to have all the papers in all department organized even the videos and the news papers in electronic system. So they created this system to enable them to have all their documents, files and videos organized in an electronic way which will save time and effort in finding anything. Furthermore, the system will organize 10 million documents and 500,000 photos. I learned how to scan the documents and photos, where the documents are currently stored in and organized and define the attributes of each category of document.

WEEK (3): Thursday, April 22, 2010

The employees in CID were so busy today therefore, I waited for the lieutenant Ibrahim who sat with me and explained the Fleet Focus system. Also, he spoke about the Weapons System which is a new thing to me and I was scared but it was an interesting experience. Finally, he told me about the findings and missing system. It is really a useful system because it is easy and you can enter your information online and the Police will help you.

WEEK (3): Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Today, I learned about the Trainees System and the system of government measures. I had to read the trainees CV and I but it on the Training web page in Dubai Police Intranet. There were many trainees but, they had to do three interviews and they should pass all of them before recruiting them in Dubai Police.

WEEK (3): Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Dubai Police cares about the attendance and the leave system. Therefore, there is a weekly report which shows the attendance records of all the employees. I was assigned to work on this system which is on the Dubai Police intranet. I worked on attendance page and prepared the report for this week.
Also, the First Lieutenant Faraj Al Muhiri explained to me the procedures of the security situation in Dubai, how they manage it and which companies Dubai Police cooperates with. Moreover, he explained to me about the security system in CID department and how it is connected to Human Resources and the Traffic System.

WEEK (3): Monday, April 19, 2010

I sat with Ahmed Qaeed who is a policeman in CID. He explained to me the system of traffic accidents in Dubai and he showed me how they organize the policemen in all areas in Dubai. The policemen have a new system which informs the policemen by SMS then, they will know which area that they should cover in Dubai. Furthermore, he explained to me the receipts SMS system, which is a new system that the Traffic Department is using. They send a SMS to their employee to tell them about their shifts and which police car they should use everyday.

WEEK (3): Sunday, April 18, 2010

Today, I moved to CID Department and I sat with Mohammed Arif who works as a designer in Dubai Police. He explained to me the attendance and the leave system in all the Departments. Also, he explained how the public or the employees in Dubai Police can report any failure of any services and how to do the statistics for the failures reports for each month. Moreover, I was introduced to the E-recruitment service which is considered as a very useful tool for any candidate is applying for a job in Dubai Police. Simply, you can attach your CV in Dubai Police website and then they will call you for the interview.