With the aim of raising awareness of the dangers of harboring or operating residence violators

"Establishing Dubai" launches the "A nation without violators" charter

"Establishing Dubai" launched the charter during a virtual seminar.

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The General Administration of Residency and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai launched the “A Nation Without Violators” charter, with the aim of educating community members about the dangers of harboring or employing violators, and the need to inform the relevant authorities about them. Facilities for Dubai to become free of stranded people.

The administration clarified, during a hypothetical seminar yesterday, that the charter bearing the slogan "Do not violate by harboring the violator" is a community initiative aimed at educating individuals about the dangers of harboring violators, and that requires community members to pledge not to deal with the violators of residency, not to hide or rent the violator, and to inform the authorities On his behalf, and after undertaking and agreeing to the terms and registering in the links available through the "Dubai Residence" communication networks, a person receives a certificate of participation in the initiative.

The Deputy Director General of the Department, Major General Obaid Muhair bin Sorour, said that “Dubai Residence” is working on harnessing capabilities to address the phenomenon of violators by allocating inspection teams to follow up on violators at the emirate level, monitoring violators in cooperation with the concerned federal and local authorities, and increasing community awareness of this phenomenon when It has many risks, and educating members of society about the laws of the state.

He pointed out that in light of the "Corona" pandemic, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, issued a decision to establish a committee for accommodation and evacuation as a contribution from the Dubai government in facilitating the affairs of the stranded during the Corona pandemic, in cooperation with strategic partners. Places to shelter stranded people, with all facilities provided for their presence in this period, places of residence, and meals for them until their departure to their homelands, and the evacuation of 1,600 stranded people was facilitated, so that Dubai would be an emirate without people stranded.

For his part, the Assistant Director General of the Violators and Foreigners Follow-up Sector at the Department, Brigadier General Khalaf Ahmad Al-Ghaith, said that some believe that the violator is the one whose residence or visa has expired, but the issue of violators is more comprehensive and broader than this definition, where the violator is a person with a valid residence and a valid visa. But it works contrary to the type of visa and residency, or it may be an infiltrator or an escape report.

He emphasized that delaying a person in renewing his residency or leaving before the expiry of the visa and ignorance of the law is the responsibility of the person who remains in the country to search for another job opportunity without paying attention to the violation, explaining that the state has flexibility in laws, procedures and decisions that are in the interest and service of people, stressing that the recent decisions came All of them to support those affected by the Corona pandemic.

Al-Ghaith presented the most prominent initiatives of the administration to correct the conditions of violators, the time limit for correcting conditions, and the initiative to coordinate with the workers committee to educate workers and companies regarding violations and not to employ violators, and to cooperate with local and federal authorities according to a timetable for inspection, awareness and implementation of inspection campaigns, and to educate individuals about the risks of harboring and attracting violators.

The first lawyer, head of the Nationality and Residency Prosecution in Dubai, Counselor Dr. Ali bin Khatem, stated that the harsher penalties have limited the phenomenon of violators, as the penalties before 2007 were light and the options available to reduce penalties were numerous, and in 2007 a period was issued to settle the status of violators, after which penalties were issued And according to Law 7 of 2007, the fines were increased for the use of a violating person to a fine of 50,000 dirhams, and doubled with the number of violators.

He added that the penalty for failing to report a worker leaving his job is 50 thousand dirhams, and the penalty for the violating person is imprisonment or a fine, deportation and his name in the list of those banned from entering the country, and for whoever uses an infiltrator, the penalty is increased to two months imprisonment with a 100,000 dirhams fine.

He explained that whoever enters the country on a tourist or visit visa is not authorized to work without obtaining a permit, and the penalty is a fine or imprisonment and deportation from the state, and the penalties for the person who employed him reach a fine of 50 thousand dirhams.

For his part, the Acting Assistant Undersecretary for Inspection Affairs at the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation, Mohsen Al-Nassi, stated that the Ministry has launched several service centers to educate workers, including guidance centers, in addition to the various channels that educate the worker about ways to communicate when exposed to any problem or violation, as well as The ministry’s call center was opened at 80060 in 20 languages. The center operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to receive any complaints from workers.

Lower the crime rate

The Director of the Anti-Infiltration Department at the Dubai Police General Command, Colonel Ali Salem Al Shamsi, said that Dubai Police aims to reduce the crime rate through inspection campaigns that it applies in cooperation with strategic partners to control infiltrators, stressing that violators have social, health, behavioral and economic risks for citizens and residents, most notably involvement In drug crimes and cases that violate public morals.

According to Dubai Police statistics, 25 disturbing crimes committed by violators were recorded last year, and those crimes decreased by 28% during the current year, recording 18 disturbing crimes, as a result of the administration's efforts to follow up and confront the violators.

Patrols launch

The Secretary-General of the Permanent Committee for Labor Affairs, Abdullah Shukri, stated that the Corona crisis has made coordination between the concerned institutions stronger, as work teams have been established in cooperation with the violators sector in the “Dubai Residence”, and patrols have been launched to monitor each violation, and send them to the higher leadership to take action. Occasion.

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