Interior ministry to conduct traffic training course for residents later this month

The Traffic Department of the Ministry of Interior (MoI), in association with the MoI Public Relations Department, will conduct a series of free training courses for representatives from organizations registered with the embassies of expatriate communities in Doha, the Ministry said in a media statement Tuesday. The training courses programme, that will start later this month, will cover various topics concerning traffic safety. Traffic safety experts will lead the four-hour training session to be held on weekends from 4.30 pm onwards at the Conference Hall located in the headquarters of the Traffic Department in Madinah Khalifa district, the MoI said. The training session in English, aims at training a representative of each community organization who in turn will carry out traffic awareness programmes in the future among the members of his community in co-ordination with the Public Relations and Traffic Departments of the Ministry. The training session will cover various subjects related to traffic safety such as pedestrian accidents - reasons and remedies, common traffic issues such as not moving the vehicle to the nearest parking area in case of minor accidents, not wearing seatbelts while driving, impact of using mobile phone and keying text while driving, wrong lane driving, overtaking from the right, power of collision between two vehicles and the traffic law implemented in Qatar in 2007 along with fines for violators and black point system. The course will empower the trainees to conduct training programmes within the community. The Traffic Department urges the leaders of the community organizations to nominate a capable person who can effectively communicate with his community members.