Dubai Police took the initiative to prepare an immediate study after an accident that killed a child asphyxia inside a bus belonging to a center for memorizing the Qur’an, and offered several solutions, including a technique that obliges the driver to pass the bus and check it before leaving it, to ensure that children are not forgotten inside it, and the door is not opened until after Press a button on the back of the bus.
Deputy Director of Crime Reduction Department at the General Department of Criminal Investigation and Investigation in Dubai Police, Lt. Col. Aref Ali Mohammed Bishoh, told «Emirates Today» on the sidelines of a seminar on smart security solutions, that the study prepared by the department addressed all aspects that could affect the safety of the child , And it has come up with several solutions that protect the child from the possibility of death, injury, or even crimes that this group may be exposed to on buses, such as harassment.
He added that the study dealt with drivers, from the selection stage to training, to the behavior of dealing with children and how to ensure safe driving, then the supervisors as being directly responsible for the safety of children from their receipt until their delivery to their families, pointing out that the incident of the Quran Memorization Center occurred in the shadow of The absence of a supervisor on the bus.
He pointed out that the study dealt with the threats of children inside buses, and put forward a number of technical solutions, in cooperation with partners at the Emirates Transport Agency and the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai, and other destinations, including installing smart cameras that read faces and identify students who entered or left the bus, and other technology It monitors movement within it, to ensure that it is completely empty. As for the easiest techniques that have been tried, it is a simple technique that obliges the driver to pass the bus and press a button at its rear, before opening the door to ensure that it is checked on all seats.
It is noteworthy that an Asian child (six years old) died as a result of leaving him in a bus belonging to a center for memorizing the Qur’an in the Al-Quoz area, after all children got off and the doors closed and he left him forgotten since eight in the morning until the death of life, in the month of June.
Moreover, Lt. Col. Bishoh said that the Dubai Police is keen to apply the latest techniques of artificial intelligence not only in detecting crime, but in reducing it, but even predicting it before it occurs based on data and analysis.
He added that there are certain crimes that are still repeated despite continuous awareness of them, such as telephone fraud, as some are dragged into fraudsters who promise them attractive prizes and transfer money to them, or disclose their confidential bank data, stressing that individuals should bear their responsibility in such situations.
Step by step criminals
The director of the Safe City Center in Abu Dhabi Police, Major Ahmed Al Shamsi, said that the police in the country are always keen to develop their methods in order to precede criminals step by step, and provide the utmost security to society, pointing to the use of advanced technologies to predict crime, which contribute to thwarting several crimes such as a gang submitted to The state carried out a crime in a specific manner, so those technologies compared its method to methods previously implemented, and it was tracked and its members arrested before carrying out another crime.
He added that the most effective technologies in the safe city depend mainly on the quality of data and its size, especially in light of the changing form and pattern of crime, after the spread of social media and advanced communication technologies.