MINSK, 18 March (BelTA) - A group of specialists of the Abu Dhabi Police Department of Forensic Evidence completed an internship at the State Forensic Examination Committee of Belarus, BelTA learned from Anna Zhdanova, spokeswoman for the committee.
The U.A.E. specialists studied the issues of state regulation in the field of standardization and conformity assessment, legislative framework of turnover of weapons and ammunition and their certification on the territory of Belarus. They got familiar with the system of licensing forensic activities, their special features.
According to Anna Zhdanova, the parties are interested in deepening mutually beneficial cooperation, exchanging experience and technologies in forensic examinations. Representatives of the U.A.E. highlight the high level of training. They are interested in exploring the latest technologies used by the experts of the State Forensic Examination Committee of Belarus especially in areas such as technical examination of documents, chemical examination, examination of drugs.
By August 2019 the Abu Dhabi Police Department of Forensic Evidence is planning to send another 30 specialists for professional development in examination of bladed weapons, ballistic, fingerprint, chemical, forensic and genetic examination.
Training courses are run as part of the memorandum of cooperation in forensic activities which was signed between the State Forensic Examination Committee and Abu Dhabi Police in July 2017. In October 2017, following the meeting between Chairman of the State Forensic Examination Committee Andrei Shved and Director of the ADP Department of Forensic Evidence Abdulrahman Mohammed Al Hammadi, the parties agreed to study the issues related to the training of foreign specialists, work out the relevant internship programs for a period of three to six months.
