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A total of 503 fake passports were seized at the Dubai International Airport by the Expertise Centre Identity and Fraud Documents (ECIFD) system.
Major-General Mohammed Ahmed Al Marri, Director General of the Dubai General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs(GDRFA), said that in the past six months a total of 503 fake passport were seized out of them 332 forged and falsified passports and 169 identity thefts.
Al Marri said that GDRFA-Dubai, is using the highest technological standards at the airport that can detect even highly fake passports, with passports' control officers who are well trained on how to detect forged passports efficiently.
According to Aqueel Al Najaar, Director of ECIFD of the GDRFA, said that visitors trying to enter the country using fake identity documents are being easily exposed at the airport, due to the high-tech passport-reading and biometrics technology system designed to identify fraud. The ECIFD was established in 2010.
Al Najaar said the centre helps verify the identities of millions of travellers passing through Dubai airport each year. He explained that the training centre of ECIFD develops and maintains a high level of expertise in relation to document checks on national and international investigation, and training on body language is also very important for passport control officers. He revealed a total of 316 trainees completed training courses since the beginning of the year at the ECIFD.
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