Three robbers managed to steal 12 kilograms of gold jewelery, worth about AED 2,400,000, from a jewelry store in a Baniyas commercial market. They initially thought they were wealthy, but Abu Dhabi police managed to catch them and steal them.
According to Brigadier General Musallam Mohammed al-Amiri, Director of the Criminal Police Department of the External Regions in the Criminal Security Sector, Bani Yas police station received a report stating that there was a theft of gold jewelry from a shop late at night. .
He added that the security measures, led in a short period to identify the identities of the perpetrators, and arrested, hiding in one of the rooms, which turned into something like a wicker, in one of the industrial areas, and possession of gold and some stolen money.
The director of the Bani Yas police station in the Directorate, Lt. Col. Hamdan Saeed Al Mansouri, said that the robbers carried out the acts and distributed the roles among themselves. After they had seen the shop before the robbery two days, during the morning hours, , Tools to use.
He explained that by interrogating the perpetrators, they were found to be out of work, practicing street vendors in residential and commercial areas, confessing to theft, and their intention to sell gold jewelry sporadically to shops, using identities belonging to other people.
Mansouri called on shop owners to take precautionary measures, such as installing fences and metal grids on glass facades and windows, using sturdy locks, depositing money and jewelry in vaulted safes, and installing sophisticated surveillance cameras that are connected to intelligent internal and external alarms.
It also called upon the public to participate and cooperate in achieving the priority objectives of crime prevention, to comply with the advice and instructions of the police and the competent authorities, to secure property and not to tolerate the necessary preventive measures to address and avoid the causes of theft.
Abu Dhabi Police distributed "Protect Our Property - Our Responsibility" in various areas of Bani Yas, focusing on community awareness, in both Arabic and English, to keep shops, houses, vehicles and bank customers robbed.