3rd Batch of Lekhwiya National and Rescue Team Graduated

Doha, November 08 (QNA) - The Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya) celebrated the graduation of the third batch of the national search and rescue team, which oversees the training of the National Academy of specialist training. The ceremony was held under the patronage of the Commander of the Private Operations Group Brigadier Ali Mohammed Al-Rashid in the presence of a number of directors and commanders of groups and Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the National Academy of Specialist Training Masoud Mohamed Al-Khaldi The number of members of the third patch of the national search and rescue team totaled 32 trainees including officers, non-commissioned officers and privates. The programme included a number of training courses in different international training institutes that covered firefighting, free parachuting, medical aid, explosives rescue by ropes, diving urban rescue, disposal of hazardous materials and land and maritime navigation. After the end of the ceremony, the Search and Rescue Officer Major Abdullah Al-Muhannadi and Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the National Academy of Specialist Training Masoud Mohamed Al-Khaldi held a press conference in which Al-Muhannadi thanked the academy stressing that it is the strategic training partner of the search and rescue team. He added that the third batch of the search and rescue team consists of 32 trainees who started training on 27th January 2014 to receive different trainings at the highest level from training institutions under the supervision of the National Academy of Specialist Training.(QNA)