The “Watan 2022” Exercise’s field drills, which are conducted by the World Cup Security Committee, began on Sunday with the involvement of all relevant military and civil authorities as well as forces from friendly and kindred nations.
Exercises are scheduled to last until October 27. The field exercises that were conducted covered a variety of specialized duties in every part of the nation as well as the execution of the deployment strategy to finish all the exercises and trainings.
Staff Col. Mubarak Sherida Al Kaabi, director of the Watan 2022 Exercise, stated that all the authorities involved in the exercise were ready well before the start of the exercise, after the plans and implementation mechanisms were reviewed according to the developed scenarios. With the start signal, all parties carried out their missions fully, as the exercise witnessed the activation of operating rooms at the level of all participating parties such as Public Security, Tournament Security and civil authorities.
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Operations were moved to alternative operating rooms and the deployment plan was activated and a set of scenarios were implemented on the ground, which simulate a set of plans and assumptions that require activating emergency plans to meet various organizational and security events.
The scenarios carried out today showed the emphasis on coordination of efforts, integration of roles, readiness, immediate response, and rapid intervention to solve problems in more than one location and with different scenarios.
Staff Col. Mubarak Sherida Al-Kaabi continued, “All military and civilian bodies involved in the exercise are keen to achieve the objectives of the exercise in order to strengthen the role of the relevant authorities while carrying out their routine and additional tasks during the World Cup tournament, to confirm the speed of response to emergency events, and to activate the command and control mechanism and cooperation between military and civilian entities.”
