Police women to be in Oman's National Day military parade

For the first time, women from the Royal Oman Police (ROP) will get the honour to be part of the parade at the military show to be held Friday at the Sultan Qaboos Academy for Police Sciences in Nizwa. The parade will be in honour of Sultan Qaboos Bin Saeed on the occasion of the 41st National Day of Oman. Meanwhile, the Sultan received a cable of congratulations from Sayyid Fahd Bin Mahmoud Al Saeed, Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers, on the occasion of the 41st glorious National Day. In his cable Fahd prayed ‘Your Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said, may Allah protect him. May peace be upon you and the mercy of God and His Blessings. “Your Majesty, I have the honour, to extend to Your Majesty on my behalf and on behalf of the Council of Ministers, our best wishes and congratulations while praying to the Almighty to safeguard Your Majesty as a cherished leader for this land,” he said in his cable. He pointed out that the Sultan’s progressive and carefully studied approach had laid the foundations of a modern country while maintaining its true heritage. “The laws and systems of the state have secured every Omani the right to participate with his constructive ideas in enhancing the development march,” he added. He assured the Omani leader that the Council of Minister placed much value in his speech at the opening of the Council of Oman as a course of action that guides all institutes, sectors and authorities of the state while implementing the plans and programmes. “We will be guided by Your Majesty’s enlightened thought and wise insight. The Council of Ministers pledges Your Majesty, to exert more efforts and work hard to implement Your Majesty’s wise policies till Oman reaches very high in the human civilisation.”