The General Directorate of Gendarmeries

   
The General Directorate of Gendarmeries
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A new vision in eyes of the leader

since his majesty king Abdullah II assumed the reins of power, he has been faced the challenges of changes in a difficult time, when many people failed to do that, he  rely on his people, future and youth and he succeeded, the noble king connected with his Jordanian family by working hard during day and night in all directions to initiative for the advancement and overall development.

Because the security of the nation and the citizens are the main focus of his majesty, the royal decree was issued to form the general directorate of gendarmerie, with a royal vision and the need for security, not a luxury, the effective contribution in the system of global security and stability enjoyed by Jordan to professionalism and specialization for different tasks, including  the containment of any defect in the internal security or out for public order.

Since its inception, the general directorate of gendarmerie has sought to achieve these vision to carry a message of trust and achieving security and preserving the right of society to protect the gains of prosperity and social welfare of the citizens and to lay the foundations of justice and stability to enjoy all live on the soil of Jordan by grace of safety and security and distinguish it from other countries in the region and the world.

This lead us to regard the general directorate of gendarmerie in charge with the protection of society and strengthen the pillars of security in conjunction with the relevant security agencies under applicable laws and systems so that all members of the community starting for the hard work and production reassured about their property,  which is necessary for all segments of the society and its responsibility active participation with security institutions for the integration of the overall security system, and because the sense of security before they can be measures for the security services or systems and safeguards guaranteed by the laws, the feeling of peacefulness and tranquility is the aim sought by any society.

As a complement to the strategy taken by this directorate in the construction, modernization and training, which it is a real and realistic translation approaches for the royal directives in order to communicate with citizens in different position, the initiative came from the general directorate of gendarmerie to establish a website for the directorate, a translation of transparent information policy which we pursue in our work so the nature of the work of the general directorate of gendarmerie through the units deployed within the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan so that we can communicate with citizens and take advantage of views through a dialogue to assess the weaknesses and strengths, in order to raise the cultural level of the security to the citizen a partner to work together to promote a achieve sustainable development and conservation of the country and their achievements.

God bless this country and save it under the patronage of his majesty king Abdullah II bin al Hussein.

The general directorate of gendarmerie.

Civil Status and Passports Department

   
Civil Status and Passports Department
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In 1921, when the Emirate of Trans Jordan was created, Prince Abdullah Bin Al Hussein started issuing one-year passports to the citizens of the Emirate, in order to facilitate their travelling outside the Emirate. Before the creation of the Emirate, passports were first issued in the name of the Arab Hashemite Government, and later in the name of the Arab Orient Government. The validity of the passport was for one year and the destination was indicated on the passport. In 1928, the first Citizenship Law for the Emirate of Trans Jordan was issued as a draft law published in the Official Gazette no. (191) dated 7/5/1922, and its implementation was declared in the Official Gazette no. (193) dated 1/6/1924. An additional law to the Citizenship Law no. (56) for the year 1949, was published in the Official Gazette no. (1004) dated 20/12/1949, by which all people regularly residing in the East Bank or the West Bank territories that are administered by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, who have the Palestinian citizenship and are not Jews, were granted the Jordanian citizenship. The Citizenship Law no. (6) for the year 1954 was published in the Official Gazette no. (1171) dated 16/2/1954. In 1927, the first Passport Law was issued, and in 1929, a law regulating the issuance of passports was issued. The Passport Department was dependent on the Command of the Arab Jordanian Army, and was headed by one of the army’s officers. On 8/9/1941, the Council of Ministers decision no. (51) was issued, and according to this decision, the Passport Department was no longer dependent upon the army, and became dependent on the Minister of Interior. This decision was published in the Official Gazette no. (720) dated 1/10/1941. In 1942, Law no. (5) for the year 1942 was issued. It was a temporary and unified law conceived as a modification of the Passport Law. It was published in the Official Gazette no. (134) dated 9/3/1942. In 1969, the Passport Law no. (2) for the year 1969 was issued, and according to this law, the issuance of all types of passports was regulated. In 1987, Law no. (22) for the year 1987 was issued, allowing double citizenship for Jordanians, in order to preserve their ties with their land.



Civil Status:



The government created the Civil Status Department in order to carry out the task of registering citizens, instead of delegating this duty to several ministries and official departments such as the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Interior, the Islamic Courts and the Statistics Department. Within this framework, Law no. (32) for the year 1966 was issued (this law was later cancelled by Law no. (34) for the year 1973). It was the first law that created the Civil Status Department, as an independent department, with the competence of applying the law. This Department was subordinated to the Minister of Interior. In 1968, following the 1967 war, the Civil Status Department started carrying out part of the competences that were limited to issuing family books and identification cards to citizens. The Civil Status Department and the Passport Department had one Director General. This was the case until 1977, when a Director General was appointed for the Civil Status Department, with the duty of applying the regulations of Law no. (34) for the year 1973.



The Department started its activities on 1/7/1977, and its offices were distributed all over the Kingdom. In 1989, the Department had 45 offices, and had grown to 73 offices in 1998.

Civil Defense Directorate

Civil Defense Directorate
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The Civil Defense is the official systematic force entitled and qualified to carry out specific duties, mainly the protection of people's lives and their properties by enacting and adopting instructions and procedures of precaution and self-protection and also dealing with rescue, aid and fire fighting in all regions of the Kingdom, by all Civil Defense Units spread over the Kingdom in governorates, districts and provinces.

Established in 1956, the Civil Defense has developed in various areas including spreading awareness amongst citizens, taking precautionary and protective measures and dealing with accidents.

All throughout, maintaining and preserving the accomplishments of the comprehensive development movement was the main objective of all Civil Defense plans.

Civil Defense history goes back to the time when the country was still known as Tran Jordan. Civil Defense was then carried out by groups of civilians working in Amman municipality armed only with basic gears and entrusted with limited duties. From there, procedures followed to expand civilian defense duties by issuing orders to set up national voluntary forces to assist and support the civilian groups.

The need to find a body to protect people's lives and properties became imminent. The nucleus for a Civil Defense was found in 1956 followed by Civil Defense Law no. (12) for the year 1959. The Law stated the establishment of a Civil Defense Directorate and defined its duties under the Public Security Department. The Civil Defense Directorate remained so until 1970 when it became directly under the Ministry of Interior with the General Director of Public Security Department at the head of its organizational structure.

The Civil Defense Directorate witnessed a rapid growth, and plans were laid down to develop performance, expand services and upgrade training. The call for this came in line with the Directorate's vision taking it many steps ahead. As a result, knowledge became the means, good performance a method and training and readiness the tools for better services.



Development of the Civil Defense Directorate:



·            Deepening the contents of the Civil Defense concepts and education.

·            Drafting the Civil Defense Law no. (18) for the year 1999 and the National Comprehensive Plan in the face of Emergencies and Disasters.

·            Generating outstanding development in all areas of work, which resulted in better performance in the field due to the emphasis on comprehensive development in the following areas:

a.        Selecting and training Civil Defense ranks proportionate to specific work needs.

b.        Machinery: introducing new and advanced machinery as allowed by the budget.

c.        Upgrading equipment and tasks of the job.

d.        Restructuring the organizational structure of the Civil Defense Directorate such as the Rescue Department, creating new managements to meet the needs such as the Department of Study and Research and Preventive Education Section.

e.        Setting up development plans and locating sources through the government to fund these projects, such as grants.

Public Security Directorate

Public Security Directorate
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On 11/4/1921, the Hashemite leadership assumed its governing responsibilities upon the demand and request of the people in the Country, and then decided to establish a Force for security purposes and keeping order. This consisted of Gendarme units at fixed stations in the cities, a reserve battalion of Gendarme, a battalion of regulars and a Hajjanah Unit, in addition to a mobilized force, whose Commander was then called the Councilor Advisor for Security and Discipline equivalent in rank of a Minister in the final Government that was formed in the Emirate of East Jordan.



Consequently, this was considered as the establishing date of the Public Security, and was decided by the Public Security Directorate to celebrate every year due to its importance in the modern history of Jordan and the importance of the achievements and realization to this first force in imposing the State authority at that sensitive stage and consolidating its foundations.



On 11/09/1923, the post of the Public Security Director was postponed. The units that were linked to it were incorporated to the Arab Army. The Security units continued to perform their duties with the Arab Army until 14/07/1956 when a law was issued for separation. They were re-linked again to the army on 25/04/1957. Then law number (29) for the year (1958) was passed which separated the Public Security from the Army and was linked to the Ministry of Interior.



In 1965, the Law for Public Security number (38) was passed. Section Four of that law specified the duties of the Force as follows:



1.           Preservation of order and security and the protection of lives, honor and properties.

2.           Prevention of crimes and endeavor to discover and pursue them, to arrest and apprehend their perpetrators and deliver them to justice.

3.          Administration of prisons and guarding of prisoners.

4.          The implementation of laws and regulations, Judicial and legitimate orders, and assisting the Public Authorities in executing their functions according to the stipulations of laws.

5.           Receiving unclaimed items and properties and dealing with them according to the stipulations of laws and regulations.

6.           Supervising and organizing Traffic on roads.

7.           Controlling the public meetings and processions on roads and in public places.

8.           Carrying out any other duties imposed by the enforced laws.

Ministry of Interior

Ministry of Interior
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About the Ministry of Interior:


The establishment of the Ministry of Interior coincided with the formation of the first central government in Trans Jordan in 1921.  Over the past eight decades, the Ministry’s name was linked with the process of building the modern Jordanian state institutions, the task of preserving security and public order, and providing the best service to citizens in urban, rural and Bedouin areas.



Like other state institutions, the Ministry of Interior kept abreast with the social and economic development of the country, forming the framework through which Jordanian innovative, administrative and legal potential have interacted leading to the achievement of the best form of the modern state that is based on the sovereignty of law and respect of rights of individuals and groups.



In 1931, the Ministry of Interior acquired its naming and assumed its vast and various tasks, which, in addition to its main task of preserving security and public order, included protecting lives and public and private property, and providing services.



Supervision of projects and programs:

One of the royal initiatives of His Majesty King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein was to assign the governors the task of following up and supervising developmental projects in the governorates.  This was done in order to develop and improve all types of services provided to citizens and with the aim of raising the individual’s standard of living, as well as investing the legal and administrative authorities granted to governors through the laws, regulations and instructions in effect. This is done through:



1.        Preparing a suitable environment for all levels of investment and strengthening cooperation between the private and public sectors.

2.        Following up on the implementation of developmental projects and their level of compliance with set timelines.

3.        Addressing causes of failure of developmental projects through the governors using all legal and administrative and otherwise accountability.

4.        Preparing capital budgets for governorates in cooperation with executive and investment councils leading to the preparation of a capital budget that guarantees the fulfillment of citizens’ needs in their different residential locations.

5.        Training and qualifying promising leaderships to follow up and supervise developmental plans, through the development unit at the Ministry and the development units in the governorates.



Under His Majesty King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein, the Ministry continues its efforts to maintain and strengthen its accomplishments by:

·            Entrenching modern administrative concepts on the basis of facilitating matters for citizens.

·            Avoiding forms of complications and bureaucracy.

·            Raising the level of efficiency and productivity of Ministry employees.

·            Expanding the authorities of governors in the field and directors at headquarters for the sake of sustainable development and the implementation of developmental projects.

·            Reconsidering laws and regulations that govern its work.

·            Keeping up with the public national policy of encouraging investment and tourism.

·            Facilitating the arrival and residency of Arab and foreign investors in the Kingdom.

Postal Savings Fund

Postal Savings Fund
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Postal Savings Fund
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Ministry of Information and Communications Technology

   
Ministry of Information and Communications Technology
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Ministry of Information and Communications Technology



Established in April 2002, the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology [MoICT] is the governmental entity responsible for articulating policy in the areas of information technology, telecommunications, and post in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

In addition to developing, incubating, and supporting ICT initiatives at a national level, the Ministry’s mandate includes stimulating local and foreign technology investments as well as promoting awareness and adoption of ICT by all segments by all segments of the population, in an all-inclusive approach.

The Ministry, through a dynamic public-private partnership process, works to create, promote, and drive new ICT opportunities in Jordan, which will facilitate the positioning of the Kingdom as a regional player in technology adoption and development, a key step to creating a knowledge-based economy.

The Ministry is currently articulating Jordan’s policies and strategies for liberalization of the telecommunications sector in both mobile and fixed line telephony, overseeing the creation of a more independent regulator and the formation of a combined national spectrum unit. These, as well as the formulation of national IT policies, are within its mandate of charting a strategic plan for the development of the ICT sector in Jordan.

Structured as a “think tank”, the Ministry’s work plan reflects its objective of creating the enabling legal, commercial, and regulatory environment receptive for technology introduction as a catalyst towards the larger socio-economic development of Jordan.