114 teams from 48 countries participate in the “UAE Tactical Teams Challenge 2025” competitions.

The organizing committee of the Emirates Challenge for Tactical Teams in Dubai Police announced the details of the sixth edition of the “Emirates Challenge for Tactical Teams 2025”, which will begin on the first of next February in the training city in Al Ruwayyah, Dubai, explaining that this year’s challenge is the largest in terms of the number of participating teams since The year 2019, which reached 114 teams from 48 countries from different continents of the world, including eight countries participating for the first time, five women’s teams, in addition to six Teams participate for the first time at the level of police colleges and 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 the Dubai Sports TV and Emirates Channels. , and social media platforms for the challenge, in addition to the presence of news broadcasts and transmissions through the media missions accompanying the participating teams.

This came during a press conference held by the Organizing Committee of the UAE Challenge for Tactical Teams at the Dubai Police Officers Club, in the presence of Assistant Commander-in-Chief for Operations Affairs Major General Abdullah Ali Al Ghaithi, Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the UAE Challenge for Tactical Teams Brigadier General Obaid Mubarak Al Ketbi, and Director of the General Department of Security of Bodies, Facilities and Emergency, Brigadier General Musabih. Saeed Al Ketbi, Deputy Director of the General Administration for Community Happiness, Colonel Professor Dr. Saud Al Rumaithi, and Chairman of the Technical Committee of the UAE Challenge for Tactical Teams, Major Jamal Al Zaabi, and a number of attendees.

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 directives of Lieutenant General His Highness Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, to transform the challenge from local to global. In the year 2018, and in light of the continuous follow-up of the Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, Lieutenant General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, and the directives that the global event be at the highest levels and keep up with the reputation of… The Emirate of Dubai organizes the best international events, events and tournaments.

He explained that this year witnessed the registration of the largest number of teams wishing to take part in the challenge, as 73 teams had registered in its fifth edition last year, while in the fourth edition of 2023, 55 teams had registered, and in its third edition of 2022, 34 teams. The second edition in 2020 had 46 teams, while the number of teams in the first edition, which coincided with the global launch of the challenge in 2019, was 61. A team.

Major General Al Ghaithi stated that the “UAE Challenge for Tactical Teams 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 participations 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.
He stressed that the event is open to the public wishing to watch the tactical teams throughout the five days to challenge and encourage the countries to which they belong.

Brigadier General Obaid Mubarak Al Ketbi explained that the organizing committee for the UAE Challenge for Tactical Teams worked this year to harness all capabilities to make the challenge appear in an image that befits the UAE and the Emirate of Dubai and its distinction in organizing and hosting the largest international occasions and events, especially in the police and sports fields, indicating that the committee is ready and has begun to Receiving teams from different countries of the world to begin proactive training and preparations for the challenge.

5 challenges
He stated that the international teams participating in the challenge will take on five challenges: “Tactical Operations Challenge,” “Attack Challenge,” “Officer Rescue Competition,” “High Tower Challenge,” and “Crossing Obstacles,” noting that each competition requires… Each team follows tactical methods, physical fitness, and high skill abilities in order to collect points on a daily basis, as the three winning teams in first place will be crowned daily, and on the final day, the winning teams with the overall total will be crowned. Earn points.

He pointed out that the challenge aims to increase the space for exchanging experiences between the participating tactical teams, and to provide the opportunity to learn about the latest international practices in the field of work of rapid intervention unit teams, and to measure the extent of efficiency and readiness in dealing with various challenges.

Arbitration readiness
In turn, 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 have previously participated in arbitration in eight local tournaments and five. International with the same challenge system.