114 teams from 48 countries are participating in the UAE Tactical Teams Challenge 2025

DUBAI, January 22 / WAM / The organizing committee of the UAE Challenge for Tactical Teams in Dubai Police said that the sixth edition of the challenge, which will be launched on the first of next February in the training city in Al Ruwayyah, Dubai, is the largest in terms of the number of participating teams since the year 2019, which reached… To 114 teams from 48 countries from different continents of the world, including 8 countries participating for the first time, 5 women’s teams, in addition to 6 teams participating for the first time at the college level. And police academies.

The organizing committee of the UAE Challenge for Tactical Teams confirmed its full readiness to start the activities at the organizational and field levels with the start of the influx of teams participating in the challenge, whose prizes reach 260 thousand US dollars, while the challenge activities will witness a live daily broadcast of all its events on Dubai Sports TV and the Emirates Channel. And the social media platforms for the challenge, in addition to broadcasting and transmitting news through media missions accompanying the participating teams.

The press conference held by the organizing committee today at the Dubai Police Officers Club to reveal the details of the challenge was attended by His Excellency Major General Abdullah Ali Al Ghaithi, Assistant Commander-in-Chief for Operations Affairs, Brigadier General Obaid Mubarak Al Ketbi, Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the UAE Challenge for Tactical Teams, and Brigadier General Musabah Saeed Al Ketbi, Director of the General Department of Security. Bodies, facilities and emergencies, Colonel Dr. Saud Al Rumaithi, Deputy Director of the General Department of Community Happiness, Major Jamal Al Zaabi, Chairman of the Technical Committee of the UAE Challenge for Tactical Teams, and a number of attendees.

His Excellency Major General Abdullah Ali Al Ghaithi confirmed that the “UAE Challenge for Tactical Teams” is witnessing continuous success and development and an increase in the number of teams at the global level, since the directive of Lt. General His Highness Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, to transform the challenge from a local to the global level in the year 2018, and in light of the continuous follow-up of His Excellency Lieutenant General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, and the directives that the global event be at the highest levels and keep pace with The reputation of the Emirate of Dubai in organizing the best international events, events and tournaments.

Major General Al Ghaithi said that the “UAE Tactical Teams Challenge 2025” has become considered the largest event of its kind in the field of work of special units and tactical teams, and that the continuous increase in the number of entries from Asian, European and African countries in addition to the Americas, year after year, embodies the global status that it has reached. Challenge to her.

Brigadier General Obaid Mubarak Al Ketbi explained that the international teams participating in the challenge will take on five challenges: “Tactical Operations Challenge,” “Assault Challenge,” “Officer Rescue Competition,” “High Tower Challenge,” and “Crossing Obstacles,” pointing out that Each competition requires each team to follow tactical methods, physical fitness, and high skill abilities in order to collect points on a daily basis, as the three winning teams will be crowned in first place daily, and on the final day, the winning teams will be crowned. The general total of points.

Major Jamal Al Zaabi explained that there are 33 specialized referees ready to arbitrate the challenge events and they have experience in the fields of rapid intervention and special police operations, noting that they have undergone specialized training courses in this type of tournaments, and previously participated in arbitrating in 8 local and 5 international tournaments in the same manner. Challenge system.

Colonel Saud Al Rumaithi explained that there is a complete media plan accompanying the global event, including a specialized media center at the event venue that provides all media services to approximately 70 journalists and correspondents from within the country and those accompanying specialized teams from outside the country, in addition to providing an Internet network, photos and video clips, and media content. For journalists, providing a photo platform, a “visual podcast” studio, an analysis studio, and screens to display the results and public interaction with the challenge.

Brigadier General Obaid Mubarak Al Ketbi announced a new competition that will precede the activities of the UAE Challenge for Tactical Teams 2025, which is a “mountain bike” competition that will start on January 31 of this year in the training city field in Al Ruwayyah, and includes a winding path extending for a distance of 1.35 km, ending with reaching the site. Special for shooting targets and then moving to the finish line. The teams participating in the competition will receive financial prizes.

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