Security exercise on hosting FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 in Nov: MoI

The Ministry of Interior has announced that the security agencies in Qatar will be conducting an exercise entitled ‘Watan’ on from November 15 to 17, 2021 with the participation of the various military, administrative and service authorities concerned with hosting the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.

This will come under the auspices of H E Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz AI Thani, the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior and head of the Security Committee of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and in the framework of the reinforcing the security preparedness for hosting the most important event in the world - FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. 

The exercise ‘Watan’ aims at enhancing the role of the concerned authorities while executing their regular missions and additional tasks during the World Cup to assess the responsiveness in emergencies and enact the mechanisms of command, control and cooperation between military and civil agencies to achieve integration of their roles while accomplishing the missions.