The General Administration of Penal and Correctional Institutions launched a video-teleservice service between the residents of punitive facilities and their families inside and outside the country, under the direction of the Commander in Chief of Dubai Police, Lieutenant General Abdullah Khalifa Al-Marri, to enable them to permanently communicate with their families, both inside and outside the country.

The Director of the General Administration of Punitive and Correctional Institutions, Brigadier Ali Al-Shamali, announced the launch of a video-teleservice service between inmates of penal institutions and their families, as a humanitarian initiative for their inmates aimed at enabling them to permanently communicate with their families, both inside and outside the country, in a way that achieves the principle of physical separation and full commitment to precautionary measures The preventive measures called for by the Dubai government in light of the current global crisis, and ensuring a safe and healthy environment that protects everyone from infection with the emerging Corona virus.

He said that Dubai Police was keen to provide full logistical support to the inmates and inmates so that they could communicate with their families through electronic devices, in cooperation with the General Department of Artificial Intelligence.

He explained that the service work mechanism is through the application of the inmates with an electronic request to visit their relatives of the inmates through the Dubai Police application on smartphones, and then a text message is sent to the requestor provided with the link for making the video call and its specific timing, through the website of the General Command Dubai Police, so that the inmate or the inmate can make the video call via the electronic devices provided by the police.