Manama, Jan. 24(BNA): A five-day training course focused on the I-link – an operational system that centralizes and continually enhances database features and helps make connections between seemingly unrelated investigations, by identifying common threads got underway today in Bahrain.

Royal Academy of Police (RAP) Commander Staff Colonel Shaikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa opened the programme, which is attended by twenty trainees from Bahrain and abroad. The Interior Ministry’s Directorate of Anti-corruption, Economic and Electronic Security is organising the training course in cooperation with the International Criminal Police Organization – known as Interpol.

The training course is the ninth phase in the RAP-Interporl cooperation which benefited so far 300 trainees from Bahrain and abroad. RAP Officers’ Training College Commander Colonel Ammar Mustapha Al-Sayyed stressed the importance of the training course which aims at enhancing personnel’s competence and keeping them abreast on data exchange system.

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BNA 1731 GMT 2016/01/24