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Issue No.134 July 20134

`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 Royal Oman Police policy to provide high quality computerized customs services.

The signing of the agreement was attended by some ROP officers.

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.

ROP Officers for Training in UK

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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 Muscat during the period

5 - 8 May.

His Excellency and the guests exchanged

cordial talks and matters of joint interest.

RO P Guests

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.

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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.


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.

Batch 51 of NewRecruits and Policewomen Graduated

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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.

In a speech at the opening ceremony the

Asst. Inspector General said that the program

was a qualitative addition to the national efforts

for management of emergencies as it provides

trained teams well-equipped to manage, respond

to emergencies and support the local civil defence

committees in the affected areas. He thanked the

USA Forestry Corporation for their cooperation in

this program.

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.

ROP Take Part in AGCC Undersecretaries of Interior.

The program is the beginning of a training

cooperation to be implemented until 2015. The aim

is to qualify incident commanders as well as the

planning, logistics, liaison, media and occupational

safety officers.

Maj. General Abdullah bin Ali Al Harthy,

President of the Public Authority for Civil Defence

and Ambulance (PACDA) as well as ROP, PACA

officers attended the opening meeting.

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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.


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.

R o a d S a f e t yTechnical Committee meets

Brigadier, Engineer Mohammed bin Awadh

Arrawass, Director General of Traffic met on 31 / 3

/ 2013 the representatives of the car rent offices in

Oman. The meeting discussed matters in relation to

car rent and the operation of this business which

serves a wide section of customers, and then

agreed on some subjects:

Continue to refer traffic violations to the

tenant in long-term contracts, and the companies

concerned should pay their vehicles fines. In short-

term contracts violations should only be referred to

the car rent offices to those who hold Omani or an

D.G. of Traffic Meets Car Rent Representatives

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

instantly the driver’s behavior. The companies would

be given more numbers after the installation of the

positioning system.

The Director General of Traffic stressed the need

to advice tenants to observe the traffic rules, to

attest the contracts legally so that the Directorate

General of Traffic can be able to summon the

violators who are involved in further proceedings.

He emphasized the fact that all sections and

branches of the D.G. of Traffic in governorates

welcome proposals as long as they serve common

interests.

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B y / K a b e e r Yo u s u f

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.


When the torrential rains started unleashing commotion and human lives were affected, the department was pressed into action and deployed several choppers to aid rescue operations in areas which were deeply affected. Five Rotary helicopters were arrayed over the air space of the sultanate to speed up the operations of search, rescue and transfer of emergency cases. One of them was placed in Sohar and the others are in Nizwa, and elsewhere. One of the helicopters successfully transferred a pregnant woman in the Wilayat of Yankul to Ibri hospital, besides saving several lives.

“We received hundreds of calls for rescue from various Wilayats during the days of rains and flashfloods”, Lt Colonel Hamad al Hamadi, Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulances (PACDA) said. “An infant, two youngsters aged 14 and 16, and a 60-year old man were washed away when the wadis overflowed after the incessant rains inundated parts of various wilayats”, he added.

One man was electrocuted and all their bodies were found after the scouring operations of PACDA with the support of the civilians. Several others who dared the wadis during the rains were rescued while a number of vehicles were washed away. ROP successfully rescued a woman surrounded by overflowing wadi in Muscat, as well as, a man in Ibri. A family of 8 had a dramatic escape in Saham in Northern Batinah when their house was surrounded by rising flashfloods but they lost a one-year-old baby from the mother’s hands. The baby’s body was found later. In Ibri, 41 girl students of Ibri College of Applied Sciences had a narrow escape when the bus they were travelling was caught up in flashfloods in the afternoon. Their bus was overturned as the driver lost control in the gushing water. They were rescued by the Civil Defence and local people and were said to have no injuries.

In Al Khoud, 5 Omanis were saved from the 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).

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“We have shifted the acute emergency cases

to other hospitals including Khoula Hospital and

SQUH. We wouldn’t be admitting emergency

patients while critical cases will be attended to by

our doctors today and tomorrow”, Dr Mahmood al

Rahbi, Head of Emergency Department said.

Heavy rains due to a low pressure system built

over the Sultanate of Oman coupled with strong

winds had also made the seas rough. Onlookers

reported that several flying objects damaged the

parked vehicles at various parts of the city. Traffic

on the Rumaila Street in Wattayah was completely

stopped due to a huge ready-to-fall billboard from

the BLS building near Volkswagen showroom. ROP

officials also stopped vehicles from entering the

Shatti Qurum Beach road as part of precautions in

the afternoon on the second day of the rains.

The Muscat Municipality and its counterparts

in all the regions were pressed in to action and

several civic men and vehicles were seen working

hard to clean the sludge and mud from the roads in

order to ease traffic. The Municipality workers in all

the governorates were well prepared and were on

duty clearing the roads and pavements late nights

on these during the rains.

Lieutenant Colonel Hamed said the Defence

Force had beefed up its preparations to tackle any

untoward incidents. “We monitored the situation

round the clock and our personnel were ready

round the clock for any untoward incident”.

The Department of Meteorology and Air

Navigation (DGMAN) which monitors the weather

situation in the country updated the people

through various media outlets with live interviews

on radio.

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Captain/Abdullah bin Said AlHarthy

Directorate of Public Relations

K n o w l e d g e

F o o d f o r T h o u g h t

- 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

- Netherlands set up the world’s first chemistry lab in 1650

- 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

G a r d e n


World of Proverbs1. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

2. Actions speak louder than words.

3. All good things come to an end.

4. All’s well that ends well.

5. All roads lead to roam.

6. All that glitters is not gold.

7. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

8. All’s fair in love and war.

9. As you make your bed, you must lie in it.

10. A bad workman always blames his tools.

11. Barking dogs seldom bite.

12. Beauty is only skin deep.

13. Beggars can’t be choosers.

14. Better late than never.

15. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know.

16. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

17. Clothes do not make the man.

18. Cowards die many times before their deaths.

19. A creaking gate hangs long.

20. Cross the stream where it is shallowest

The Lamb

By Wil l iam Blake Little Lamb who made thee

Dost thou know who made thee

Gave thee life & bid thee feed.

By the stream & o’er the mead;

Gave thee clothing of delight,

Softest clothing wooly bright;

Gave thee such a tender voice,

Making all the vales rejoice!

Little Lamb who made thee

Dost thou know who made thee

Little Lamb I’ll tell thee,

Little Lamb I’ll tell thee!

He is called by thy name,

For he calls himself a Lamb:

He is meek & he is mild,

He became a little child:

I a child & thou a lamb,

We are called by his name.

Little Lamb God bless thee.

Little Lamb God bless thee.

D. H. Lawrence Snake byA snake came to my water-troughOn a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat, To drink there.

In the deep, strange-scented shade of the great dark carob-treeI came down the steps with my pitcherAnd must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was at the trough beforeme.

He reached down from a fissure in the earth-wall in the gloomAnd trailed his yellow-brown slackness soft-bellied down, over the edge ofthe stone trough

And rested his throat upon the stone bottom,i o And where the water had dripped from the tap, in a small clearness,He sipped with his straight mouth,Softly drank through his straight gums, into his slack long body, Silently.

Someone was before me at my water-trough,And I, like a second comer, waiting.

He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do,And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do,And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment, And stooped and drank a little more,Being earth-brown, earth-golden from the burning bowels of the earth On the day of Sicilian July, with Etna smoking.The voice of my education said to meHe must be killed,For in Sicily the black, black snakes are innocent, the gold are venomous.

And voices in me said, If you were a manYou would take a stick and break him now, and finish him off.

But must I confess how I liked him,How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink at my water-troughAnd depart peaceful, pacified, and thankless,Into the burning bowels of this earth?

Was it cowardice, that I dared not kill him? Was it perversity, that I longed to talk to him? Was it humility, to feel so honoured?I felt so honoured.

And yet those voices:If you were not afraid, you would kill him!

And truly I was afraid, I was most afraid, But even so, honoured still moreThat he should seek my hospitalityFrom out the dark door of the secret earth.

He drank enough And lifted his head, dreamily, as one who has drunken, And flickered his tongue like a forked night on the air, so black, Seeming to lick his lips,And looked around like a god, unseeing, into the air,And slowly turned his head,And slowly, very slowly, as if thrice adream,Proceeded to draw his slow length curving roundAnd climb again the broken bank of my wall-face.

And as he put his head into that dreadful hole,And as he slowly drew up, snake-easing his shoulders, and entered farther, A sort of horror, a sort of protest against his withdrawing into that horrid black hole,Deliberately going into the blackness, and slowly drawing himself after,Overcame me now his back was turned.

I looked round, I put down my pitcher, I picked up a clumsy logAnd threw it at the water-trough with a clatter.

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I think it did not hit him,But suddenly that part of him that was left behind convulsed in undignified haste.Writhed like lightning, and was gone Into the black hole, the earth-lipped fissure in the wall-front, At which, in the intense still noon, I stared with fascination.

And immediately I regretted it.I thought how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act!I despised myself and the voices of my accursed human education.

And I thought of the albatrossAnd I wished he would come back, my snake.

For he seemed to me again like a king,Like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld,Now due to be crowned again.

And so, I missed my chance with one of the lordsOf life.And I have something to expiate:A pettiness.

The Raven By

Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak

and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten

lore,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a

tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber

door.

`’Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, `tapping at my chamber

door -

Only this, and nothing more.’

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon

the floor.

Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to

borrow

From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost

Lenore -

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named

Lenore -

Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple

curtain

Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt

before;

So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood

repeating

`’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber

door -

Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber

door; -

This it is, and nothing more,’

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no

longer,

`Sir,’ said I, `or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;

But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came

rapping,

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber

door,

That I scarce was sure I heard you’ - here I opened wide

the door; -

Darkness there, and nothing more.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there

wondering, fearing,

Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to

dream before;

But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no

token,

And the only word there spoken was the whispered

word, `Lenore!’

This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word,

`Lenore!’

Merely this and nothing more.

Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me

burning,

Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than

before.

`Surely,’ said I, `surely that is something at my window

lattice;

Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery

explore -

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;

-

‘Tis the wind and nothing more!’

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and

flutter,

In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of

yore.

Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped

or stayed he;

But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my

chamber door -

Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber

door -

Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,

By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it

wore,

`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,’ I said, `art

sure no craven.

Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the

nightly shore -

Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian

shore!’

Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’

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.’


But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke

only,

That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did

outpour.

Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he

fluttered -

Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have

flown before -

On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown

before.’

Then the bird said, `Nevermore.’

Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,

`Doubtless,’ said I, `what it utters is its only stock and

store,

Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful

disaster

Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one

burden bore -

Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore

Of «Never-nevermore.»’

But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,

Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and

bust and door;

Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking

Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of

yore -

What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous

bird of yore

Meant in croaking `Nevermore.’

This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable

expressing

To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my

bosom’s core;

This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease

reclining

On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated

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!’


`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

enchanted -

On this home by horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore -

Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I

implore!’


`Prophet!’ said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or

devil!

By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we

both adore -

Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant

Aidenn,

It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named

Lenore -

Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels

named Lenore?’


`Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!’ I

shrieked upstarting -

`Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s

Plutonian shore!

Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath

spoken!

Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my

door!

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from

off my door!’


And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting

On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;

And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is

dreaming,

And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow

on the floor;

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on

the floor

Shall be lifted - nevermore!

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