The Attorney General of the Emirate of Dubai, Counselor Issam Issa Al Humaidan, and Commander in Chief of Dubai Police, Major General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, inaugurated yesterday the “Hearing Executives Exactly from a distance” initiative through the “Remote Litigation” room, which is the result of cooperation efforts between the Drug Prosecution and the Public Administration To fight drugs.

During the inauguration, the two sides witnessed the first process of taking the testimony of officers of the seizure with the Public Prosecution at the state level, in the presence of the Assistant Public Prosecutor, Youssef Hassan Al-Mutawa, and the Assistant Commander in Chief for Criminal Research Affairs, Major General expert Khelil Ibrahim Al-Mansoori, and the head of the Drug Prosecution Office The attorney general, Khaled al-Zarouni, and the director of the General Anti-Narcotics Department, Brigadier Eid Muhammad Hareb, and a number of officials from both sides.

The litigation room was equipped with an integrated system for the parties to the lawsuit, to accelerate the process of litigation in various cases, without the need for the arresters or witnesses to come to the prosecution or the court to hear their statements, which is the first between the two sides at the state level, and similar rooms will be inaugurated in other public administrations during The next stages.

The two sides expressed their happiness at the inauguration of the chamber in the General Administration of Narcotics Control, to take testimonies of the arresters, witnesses and suspects in drug cases at the state level, according to the new work mechanism in the chamber.

Al-Humaidan affirmed that the initiative “hearing those in charge exactly from a distance” is one of the strategic projects of the Public Prosecution, in cooperation with its partners, to facilitate and accelerate the completion of cases and shorten time and effort, as an alternative to the transfer of those responsible for the seizure to the Public Prosecution and the courts.

He pointed to the efforts of the task forces, which completed this stage, which is part of later stages that will include visual services in police stations, the public prosecutor and the courts, without transferring the arrested and the rest of the parties to the places of investigation and trial.

Al-Humaidan stressed that after the inauguration of the remote litigation room, the matter will become simpler and easier and save time, money and effort, especially in drug cases that are characterized by the privacy of the accused and the officers and officers, especially in the transportation process, where the accused and witnesses will be investigated, and then presented to the courts using technology Remote litigation, without the need to attend the prosecution and the courts according to the requirements of the law, by arresting the accused and presenting him to the judge through video communication, and then issuing the judgment against him without the need to transfer him to the courts. Al-Marri stressed that the inauguration of the "remote litigation" room in a public administration in the Dubai Police comes within the framework of fruitful cooperation between Dubai Police, the Public Prosecution and Dubai Courts, through the application and adoption of the latest smart services at work, which contribute to providing quality services and shortening the effort and time and speeding up the pace Providing services, in line with the directions of the smart Dubai government, and the initiatives of the smartest city in the world, where the prosecution inaugurated with the police a “remote litigation” room at Dubai International Airport, Bur Dubai Police Station, Al Barsha, and the General Department of Criminal Evidence.

He said that Dubai Police seeks to develop and organize smart technology tools so that they are an important part of the work system, in order to achieve a qualitative development in general performance at all levels.