JEDDAH: The Border Guards General Directorate will train women to work as inspectors at sea and airports, according to Brig. Dr. Abdulaziz Bin Saeed Al-Asmari, the Directorate's Director of Training. Al-Asmari said the directorate recently coordinated efforts with the Naif Academy for National Security and Naif Arab University for Security Sciences to execute intensive inspection and guard training programs for women. “Trainees from outside of Riyadh will be required to be accompanied by a Mahram (male guardian). The Border Guards will provide them with accommodation and transportation to and from the university and the academy,” he said. “Jobs for women at the Border Guards are announced every year depending on the need,” he said. Training updated A number of administrations at the Directorate's Training Department have been upgraded and developed, including the Measurement and Assessment and the On-the-Job Training administrations, he said. These two administrations have important tasks: The first measures the actual performance, corrects shortcomings and strengthens what is of benefit; while the other works on field training in marine or land [terrain] or in command and control rooms.” He said this is to ensure every private and officer works on a scientific basis with no mistakes. The Border Guard seeks to carry out its tasks with accuracy, he said. The assessment administration's employees are officers qualified in assessment, with some holding doctorate degrees. On the computer skills of the training department's graduates, he said the Directorate has signed several agreements with universities and intensive computer and English language courses are held for the graduates in all regions. “We have reopened a number of [Border Guard] training centers that were closed several years ago, including the two centers in Eastern Province and Jizan. About 700 Facility Security cadets are being trained at the Tabuk training center this year,” he said. Soon the Directorate will start training 500 members of the Anti-Narcotics Department of Riyadh Province, and 400 members of the Passports Department, he said. More will be admitted at the Directorate's institutes and training centers soon. “During the next few weeks, trainees in Al-Jouf, Najran and Eastern Province will graduate and join their colleagues on the country's coastline.”
