Mall of the Emirates to get police aid post

Director of the police station Colonel Ali Ghanim said the Dubai Police would establish new police posts in the coming months, including at Mall of the Emirates.

He said police were working to end thefts and harassment at shopping malls by deploying male and female CID officers.

The police aid post at The Dubai Mall was currently providing 11 services, including issuance of certificate of good conduct and receiving theft or harassment complaints or traffic cases.

Meanwhile, the Bur Dubai police station had registered 8,621 criminal and traffic cases, including two murders, during the first six months of the current year, down on the same period last year.

There were exactly 500 fewer cases this year, with the first six months of 2012 reeling in 9,121 cases.

Col Ghanim attributed the drop in serious crimes to security programmes implemented and prevention measures taken by the police.

Currently, Bur Dubai police were conducting an awareness campaign to raise people’s sense of security.

He said the Bur Dubai police station had introduced, for the first time in the UAE, a new system using identity cards for transporting detainees depending on their health condition or humanitarian situation.

In the old manual system, the police would take ten minutes to complete the six stages of procedures for each detainee to be transported to the prosecution, jail or hospital, but the now the time had been reduced to two minutes.

The system was good at the humanitarian level, as some sick inmates could not wait for long to be transported to the hospital, Col Ghanim said, adding it also helped prevent delays from attending court hearing.

To prevent assaults in detention centres, the police had now designated separate cells or spaces for different categories of inmates. For instance, dangerous suspects were not detained in cells along with people held in civil cases like dud cheques. Also, separate cells were being used for detaining people involved in minor cases so that they would not be influenced by seasoned criminals or drug addicts.

The Bur Dubai police station was also in the process of adopting the m-Government initiative spearheaded by His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. Seven new services including issuance of certificates of good conduct would be provided under this initiative. -news@khaleejtimes.com