The swift response to the family's report contributed to preventing the yacht from drifting and colliding into the rock breaker despite the strong sea currents and high waves.
Dubai: Dubai Police have recorded several cybercrimes amid the COVID-19 pandemic as scammers target victims seeking to buy masks and ventilators.
According to Colonel Saeed Al Hajiri, Director of Cybercrime Department at Dubai Police, the E-Crime platform to report cybercrimes in Dubai played a key role in arresting scammers who took advantage of the pandemic to scam community members.
“At the beginning of the pandemic, gangs promoted online masks and ventilators. They were arrested and referred to the concerned authority for legal action,” said Col Al Hajiri.
According to official records, the complaints and calls related to cybercrimes rose by 3,000 per cent since the launch of the E-Crime platform since three years.
Dubai: As part of Dubai Police’s campaign ‘Begging is a Wrong concept of Compassion,’ the Al Raffa Police Station in Bur Dubai has arrested 24 violators, including beggars and street vendors.
Brigadier Ahmed Thani bin Ghalita, Director of Al Raffa Police Station, said that the station joins the campaign’s efforts every year to combat begging in the emirate by assigning working teams to operate according to an integrated security plan, in cooperation with the department responsible for countering infiltrators and other partners to intensify patrols in places expected to be frequented by beggars.
Strict legal procedures
Brigadier Ahmed Thani bin Ghalita
24 beggars, street vendors arrested in Dubai
Web Report/Dubai
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Dh5,000 fine, jail term of up to three months for begging in UAE
A total of 24 people beggars and street vendors were arrested in Dubai by Al Raffa Police, the police said on social media.
Brigadier Ahmed Thani bin Ghalita, Director of Al Raffa Police Station, said the arrests come as part of Dubai Police’s campaign Begging is a Wrong concept of Compassion.
Brig Bin Ghalita said the station joins the campaign s efforts every year to combat begging in the emirate by assigning working teams to operate according to an integrated security plan in cooperation with other departments to intensify patrols in places expected to be frequented by beggars.
Dubai Police arrest 177 beggars during Ramadan
02 May 2021
Gulf Today, Staff Reporter
As part of Dubai Police’s campaign Begging is a Wrong concept of Compassion,” 177 violators were arrested at the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan.
Colonel Ali Salem, Director of the Department of infiltrators at Dubai Police, said they operate according to an integrated security plan to combat begging in cooperation with partners and intensify patrols in places expected to be frequent by beggars. The campaign showed evident success in reducing the number of beggars annually, as strict procedures are taken against violators and the efforts of the General Department of Criminal Investigation to eliminate the phenomenon from our society, Col Salem added.