Dar Al Ber Society, DABS, is gearing up to develop and provide better services to the inmates of the Punitive and Correctional Establishments in Dubai.

The announcement followed a meeting between the two strategic partners with hopeful plans to introduce more services for the benefit of inmates in the emirate.

The get-together took place in the presence of Brigadier Ali Mohammed Abdullah Al Shamali, Director of the General Directorate of Punitive and Correctional Establishments, DGPCE, Colonel Marwan Abdul Karim Julphar, Deputy Director – DGPPCE, Captain Mohammed Abdullah Al Obaidli, Director of Inmates Education and Training, and Majid Mohammed Al Rahmani, Head of Religious Programmes.

Also present were Hisham Al Zahrani, Deputy Head of Social Service Sector from Dar Al Ber, along with Khalid Alolama, Project Manager, and Redha Al Hassan, Head of Teachers and Students’ Affairs Section under the Activities and Events Department.

Both sides discussed the possibilities of coming up with new programmes to educate inmates and develop their religious and cultural awareness, particularly by using 'distance channels', and providing more books to libraries in the punitive and correctional establishments in different languages.

Later, both sides talked over the results of a ‘reading contest’ which was meant to encourage inmates to read more in view of the prudent leadership’s ‘Reading Nation’ drive. The winners were given gifts with valuable prizes.