Abu Dhabi Police

Background: Police departments are encouraged to integrate their health and safety management systems with the operational arrangements to demonstrate commitment to the improvement of working environment in the police is by the collection and analysis of occupational health data such as sickness absence and early retirement intention.

Conclusion: The outcome of this study provides insights into the determinants of early retirement intentions in the less explored region of middle-east, specifically in Abu Dhabi. Thorough analysis of such data will help police organisations to prioritise plans and improve the health and wellbeing of officers, in turn contributing to strengthening the fight against crime and minimizing the number of occupational injuries and premature exit from paid work.

Abu Dhabi Police

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Police departments are encouraged to integrate their health and safety management systems with the operational arrangements to demonstrate commitment to the improvement of working environment in the police is by the collection and analysis of occupational health data such as sickness absence and early retirement intention.

The outcome of this study provides insights into the determinants of early retirement intentions in the less explored region of middle-east, specifically in Abu Dhabi. Thorough analysis of such data will help police organisations to prioritise plans and improve the health and wellbeing of officers, in turn contributing to strengthening the fight against crime and minimizing the number of occupational injuries and premature exit from paid work.

In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the General Directorate of Policing Operations is the largest employer. It is one of the six Directorates divided further into department, branches and units. Abu Dhabi Police is part of the General Directorate of Policing Operations which forms part of the Ministry of Interior of the UAE. It is estimated that Abu Dhabi Police has a workforce of over 35,000 police officers and civilians.

This study focuses on the relation of work-related factors, while controlling for non-work related factors, on early retirement intentions driven by sickness absence. This is one of the first studies investigating this relationship among police officers in the UAE. The outcome of this study provides insights into the determinants of early retirement intentions in the less explored region of middle-east, specifically in Abu Dhabi. Thorough analysis of such data will help police organisations to prioritise plans and improve the health and wellbeing of officers, in turn contributing to strengthening the fight against crime and minimizing the number of occupational injuries and premature exit from paid work.

It is worth nothing that most of the studies were conducted in Scandinavian countries which makes it difficult to generalize the findings to other populations since Scandinavian countries have generous social insurance schemes and low wage inequality [24]. Also, majority of the previous studies on the relationship between sickness absence and disability retirement used samples from the general population and not many were from the police force. Therefore, this study fills an important gap in literature by analysing the sickness leave and early retirement intentions in the middle-eastern region.

An approval to distribute occupational health surveys to Abu Dhabi Police employees was granted by the Secretary General of the Office of His Highness Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior of the UAE. Ethical approval was also obtained from the Health Authority of Abu Dhabi (HAAD) and an official letter was sent from the Human Resource Directorate of Abu Dhabi Police to the Capital Police Directorate to allow the distribution of the surveys to the employees of the latter Directorate. The Directorate in which the study is one of the major Directorates and includes main critical police functions such as investigation, police patrols, police station services and other core functions. These traditional roles induce physical and psychological exposures to police officer that arguably is the same as other international police forces. Some functions of the police services such as ambulance, civil defence, border security at that time were also carried out by the police but were not performed in this Directorates. The Occupational Health and Safety Survey was distributed to 1,317 employees of other departments of the Capital Police Directorate of Abu Dhabi Police between Feb 1st and March 31st 2015. Although the data provided in this study were for the year 2015, the Directorate were not part of any major restructuring or strategic changes which occurred in other Directorates. Therefore, and given the traditional nature of the work, the findings of the study could be generalized to other police Directorates (with similar traditional functions) and international police forces.

There was a statistically significant increase in odds of early retirement intention in the three models in the low and medium (versus high) categories of the three workplace support variables and those with unfavourable (versus favourable) perception of health and safety management system. The adjustment did not make large difference in the associations. The odds of early retirement intention in police employees with high (versus low) combined physical exposures increased significantly by 66%, 90% and 92% in the unadjusted, model I and model II respectively.

Sickness absence is negatively associated with job satisfaction [68] which was also associated with early retirement intentions [69]. Thus, police officers with various sickness absence durations could have been dissatisfied about their work which in turn, may explain the increase in risk of holding early retirement intentions.

The study provides many suggestions for the Abu Dhabi Police and for law enforcement organisations in general. Police organisations must demonstrate continuing commitment to the improvement of working conditions of police employees by allowing researchers to evaluate the influence of work factors on various health and non-health outcome. This will ensure that work exposures specific to the policing environment are identified thoroughly, which, in turn, will allow for the effective planning and implementation of appropriate health and safety control measures.

There are four main limitations of this study. This study used self-reported measures which are subject to recall bias as in other similar studies [71]. The cross-sectional design of the study makes it difficult to establish causal inference: if the exposure to work factors led to the outcome or the relationship exist in the opposite direction [72]. Missing data was another limitation of this study. It resulted in reducing the sample size to almost half when adjusting for various covariate groups. Finally, females were under-represented in this sample of police officers which made it difficult to carry out stratified analyses of results.

Established in 2003 as a method to enhance the proactive role of the police and community in crime prevention. The community police are also active in social programs and local events as a means to strengthen relations with the public.

The College was established by the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Federal Law No.(1) was issued in 1985 and stipulated the foundation of the College. The aim was stated as to create an effective police force, enhance the security of the country, safeguard its achievements and gain the confidence of society.

Abu Dhabi Police celebrated its golden jubilee on 5 December 2007. A mass wedding ceremony of 50 nationals, symposiums and lectures, exhibitions of the work of Abu Dhabi Police, a book documenting the history of the police force and collection of half a million signatures on a huge canvas were all part of the celebrations. The occasion was used to showcase the police force, its security capabilities, technological applications and its training. Many social activities, community programmes, sports activities were part of the golden jubilee celebrations. Organised under the directives of Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan celebrations were held under the slogan 'Fifty years of building leadership and distinction'.[21]

The Police Band of the Abu Dhabi Police General Headquarters also known internationally as the Abu Dhabi Police Brass Band (Arabic: ) is the official musical unit of the Abu Dhabi Police in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It also serves as a military band of the UAE Armed Forces. The band currently serves with the deep emphasis in the importance of motivating police officers and the public, with some of its pieces encompassing marching, traditional, Arab, and British genres.[2][3] In 1963, Brigadier General Ishaq Suleiman, a sergeant in a Jordanian Army Band, while on tour in London met with the niece of an official aide to the Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who wished to create a police band the city. She then invited Suleiman to the UAE to lead the band, giving him a ticket to Abu Dhabi so he could have the opportunity to consult with the Emir. He began recruiting members for the band from foreign countries such as Pakistan due to the common sentiment at the time by Emiratis about playing music, of which they considered shameful. He eventually created a 60-member band, made up of 30 bagpipes and 30 brass instruments. The band originally performed military marches, but time went by, Suleiman started teaching them famous symphonies by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mozart.[4] Suleiman, who left the band in 1980 and retired in 1991, designed the current ranking insignia worn band, as well as the police department. The 173-member band, who has received its training and experience from the Abu Dhabi Police College since 2004, has performed at venues all over the world, including at the coronation of SayyidQaboos bin Said al Said in 1970, the Spasskaya Tower Military Music Festival and Tattoo in 2013,[5][6] and the Berlin Military Music Festival in 2014. 17dc91bb1f