Women of duty: female police in the capital

The number of female applicants to the Abu Dhabi police has doubled after a recruitment drive started in October. Helena Frith Powell gets rare access to see the latest cadets at their training school.


Emirati women are perhaps not renowned for their love of flat shoes, drab clothes and severe discipline. But should you find yourself at the Abu Dhabi Police Women Training Section on any weekday between 8 and 9am, you will be greeted by the unusual sight of around 100 of them marching in time to a beat
dictated by four female trainers.

“This year for the first time we are allowed to go home after training,” says Mona Alawad, who is 28 and from Abu Dhabi. “It would be tough to stay all week, especially if you are a mother.”

The cadets in khaki uniforms are the latest female recruits to the Abu Dhabi Police Department, a force that proportionally boasts more women than either London or New York and is doing its best to encourage more to join. The recruitment drive has proven so successful, according to the Ministry of Interior at Abu Dhabi Police General Headquarters, that the number of applicants had nearly doubled since efforts to attract Emirati women to the job began last October. The number of female applicants for the latest recruiting class had increased from the usual 50 to 60 to more than 100. In Abu Dhabi there are women represented across all departments; from the traffic police to dog training, the community police to the special tasks division responsible for security for visiting VIPs and major events, as well as anti-riot action. The most senior policewoman is a lieutenant-colonel. But in order to attract women, the Abu Dhabi police have had to change the regulations.

Vocabulary Puzzle - Unit5

Today's news: It’s a small world: KidZania, Dubai’s new educational theme park

Kidzania is another world for all children to achieve their dreams. Every child around the world has ambitions in their lives and they seek to achieve them. This project has been improved by the Mexican businessman Xavier Lopez and it has six branches around the world including Tokyo, Jakarta and Dubai. In Kidzania, there are many shops and restaurants where the kids can experience the work life. In Addition, the working children will have the same salary for all jobs except the ones who have the bachelor’s and master degree. Kidzania can help improving the values in the children by being kind and cooperating with each other. Also, they will have a chance to be separated from their parents and think independently.

This is what I learned today

I will show you an enteresting website which will help you to learn English quikly, you can follow the stips to make your own game:

1- Open this website ( http://www.spellingcity.com/ ).

2- Write the words that you want to learn about.

3- Click on the button ( play a game ).

4- Choose any game that you like.

5- Try to solve the game.

6- You will find it very interesting.

I hope that you will find it useful and helpful.

?Did You Know

1- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

2- The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.

3- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

4- There are six words in the English language with the letter combination ''uu'':Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumirate, duumvir and residuum.

5- The shortest French word with all five vowels is ''oiseau'' meaning bird.

6- The word ''queueing'' is the only English word with five consecutive vowels.

7- Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.

8- The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are ''screeched'' and ''strengths''.

9- Very small clouds that look like they have been broken off of bigger clouds are called scuds.

10- Giraffes have vocal cords.

The teacher for the future

My name is Mariam .I am 20 years old. I am married and I have one doughter. My favourite hobbies are painting, reading stories and shopping. I am a student in ECAE. My parents encoureged me to choose this college, becouse I want to be a teacher. There is advanteges and disadvanteges about ECAE.First the advanteges are the teachers are helpful and cooprative, and the students are kind and social.Also I liked the campus .Second the disadvanteges.are the bad food in the cafeteria and about the transportation there are no buses.