Amman, July 20 – The Senate Tourism and Heritage Committee, chaired by Senator Michel Nazzal, met on Sunday with the Director of the Tourist Police Department, Brigadier General Imad Shoman, and the accompanying delegation from the department. The meeting reviewed the plans and duties of the Tourist Police Department and its role in enhancing tourism security.
During the meeting, held at the Senate headquarters, Senator Nazzal praised the department's pivotal and important role in enhancing tourism security and its positive impact on the tourism sector. He explained that the meeting was held to review the department's responsibilities and the most prominent challenges it faces in performing its duties and implementing established plans.
For his part, Brigadier General Shoman reviewed the current work of the Tourist Police in all governorates of the Kingdom, highlighting the department's most prominent tasks related to protecting tourist sites and tourists, providing security escorts, and participating in other tasks, such as monitoring and inspection in cooperation with relevant institutions, to maintain a tourism system free of violations.
He pointed out that the security services provided by the department in the tourism sector aim to achieve tourism security within a security strategy that relies heavily on law enforcement.
Brigadier General Shoman explained that the plans and programs developed by the department to secure the tourism sector within the public security framework are designed to respond efficiently and effectively to any obstacles or challenges facing tourists and tourism workers.
He said that the department works to enforce laws to achieve tourism security and protect tourists, archaeological sites, and tourist facilities, using a participatory approach. The department's duties and response procedures with tourism facilities are carried out within unified frameworks and procedures. He noted that the department carries out its work in cooperation and ongoing partnership with relevant institutions associated with the tourism sector.
The senators, for their part, praised the important role and positive impact of the Tourist Police Department in enhancing tourism security, commending the department's development through the use of modern means to protect sites and secure tourists at those sites.
They recommended working to unify the reference for tourism statistics in the sector, in coordination with partners, to develop, manage, and protect tourist sites, and to enhance the role of the Tourist Police in maintaining the security and safety of archaeological and tourist sites.
They emphasized the importance of supporting the tourist police, providing it with all the necessary equipment to ensure its success, and qualifying and training its cadres, providing them with the necessary skills to support the department's work. They also emphasized the need to strengthen the department's cadres to ensure the smooth flow of tourism to archaeological sites across the Kingdom.