Program Details

The program prepares graduates to become leaders of a multidisciplinary team in the application of standard, ethical, policing practices, procedures, and technologies to ensure public security by identifying threats, assessing risk, and implementing organisational, interagency solutions to maintain stability, reduce crime, and ensure public confidence in the resilience of the nation.

The program was developed to meet the educational and security goals of the Abu Dhabi Plan. Specifically, in the education sector, the program empowers students through improving and enhancing their capacities and skills; provides a driving and supporting environment for research, sciences and technology; and promotes the system and culture of innovation. For the security sector, the program qualifies employees for maintaining of security and safety; and enhancing the cooperation and collaboration in various national security scopes and area. The Policing and Security program consists of courses focused upon the management of police operations in the United Arab Emirates and includes leadership, crime investigation, community policing, strategic planning, and command of operations. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, simulation exercises, and applied real-world scenarios, students learn team organization, professional ethics, interagency operations, and resilience through the core principles of contemporary relevance, integration, cooperation, multi-agency coordination, and interoperability. Graduates are leaders who contribute to the safety, security, defence, emergency preparedness, and crisis management (SSDEC) for resilience of the nation.