‘Security officers manning ports must have best gear’
‘Do more for Kuwaitis, expats’
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 16: The Minister of the Interior Sheikh Thamer Al-Ali has said the security authorities manning the ports should be given the best and latest technological equipments to strengthen the security corridor calling it vital to protect the homeland, and also called for establishing a police station at the Kuwait International Airport instead of referring the cases to the Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh police station, reports Al-Anba daily.
The Minister called for the need to exert more efforts to make the entry and exit procedures for the Kuwaitis and residents more flexible while at the same time tightening control over security by taking precautionary measures.
Sheikh Thamer also stressed on the need to continue work towards providing facilities and removing all obstacles facing the elderly and people with special needs and making use of a number of languages to deal more easily with guests and visitors to Kuwait from all over the world and mastering the skill of sign language to deal with deaf and dumb travelers, and the continuous development and modernization of the security system of the port security sector to achieve the desired goal.
This came during a field tour undertaken by the Minister of Interior inside the ports security sector, where he was received by the Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior for Port Security Affairs Major General Mansour Al-Awadhi and a number of assistant undersecretaries and general managers of the relevant sectors to get first hand information on some of issues that hinder the sector’s work and discuss ways to solve these issues.
He began his tour with a visit to the Specialized Training Center for Ports Security Affairs, and listened to an explanation about the training course for the deaf and dumb, and distributed certificates to the trainees, praising the efforts and continuous work he saw to improve the level of performance through those courses offered by the Center, stressing that the security men.
He also listened to a brief explanation of work mechanism adopted by managers affiliated to airport security, then presented a summary of the work of the General Administration of Land Ports, its achievements, requirements and future plans for its development.
The Assistant Undersecretary for Electrical Distribution Networks at the Ministry of Electricity and Water, Eng. Mutlaq Al-Otaibi, announced the ministry will soon in cooperation with the Public Authority for Housing Welfare, provide electricity in the private buildings for homes in Taima for the benefit of about 500 families living in that area, says AlSeyassah.
He said this during the power supply to the Al-Funaitees clinic recently, within the framework of cooperation between the ministries of Health, Electricity and Water to provide facilities for medical services.
Al-Otaibi said in a press statement the power supply will serve the Al-Funaitees residential area, where about 70 percent of the residential area has been occupied and called for accelerating the power supply operation to serve the residents of the area.
He added the maximum consumption rate for the dispensary was one megawatt, and the station was operated with a transformer of 1250 kW capacity, which would secure the delivery of current to this vital center on which the residents of the region depend.
Regarding the maintenance work for the distribution stations, Al-Otaibi clarified that they are carried out according to the specified schedules, and are conducted from 4 am to 8 am to avoid any interruption during vital periods of time.
Regarding the transmission of power supply to the new areas in Al Mutla’a and South Abdullah and Al-Mubarak, he pointed out that weekly meetings are held with the Municipality, the Public Authority for Housing Welfare and the Ministry of Public Works to fix a specific date to open the door for issuing licenses and receive requests to begin construction work and ensure that the power supply is delivered to build those cities.