New prison complex ‘nearing completion’

The project, to be commissioned in early July, was inspected by General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Commander in Chief of Dubai Police. He was accompanied by a number of senior officers. Colonel Mohammed Saeed Bakheet, acting director of the Services and Equipment General Administration, said the complex has a prison for men and another for women, as well as a third prison for violators of the residency laws, besides two sections for juvenile delinquents, one for males and another for females.

State-of-the-art control and monitoring equipment have been selected to be installed at the prison complex, said the official.

The official said the company handling the construction of the complex was putting the final touches to the main building that houses a clinic, quarantine facilities, transportation section, administrative offices, the main kitchen and the stores.

The men’s section has two floors, where prefabricated were used, and the same applied to the women’s section. Work on the outside fence of the building has been completed, said the official.

Col. Bakheet said the main entrance area includes a reception where all facilities for visitors have been incorporated. There is also an area to exhibit products made by prison inmates.