Dubai Police digitally restores a decomposing corpse with no color, fingerprints or DNA ... The result is a surprise

Dubai Police have restored the face of a man whose body was found in the sea, with the mediation of advanced three-dimensional technology developed by citizen experts in the Forensic Medicine Department of the General Department of Forensic Evidence in coordination with the General Department of Artificial Intelligence, and requested members of the public to help identify its owner.

The Director of the General Department of Forensic Evidence and Criminology, Major General Dr. Ahmed Eid Al-Mansouri, said that identifying the face of the body was considered a great challenge in light of its exposure to almost complete decomposition, especially in light of the disappearance of its features, indicating that the experts of the administration have been applying the technique of "face reconstruction." Digitally "through a joint professional team from the Forensic Medicine Department and the Electronic Forensic Evidence Department, with the aim of reaching an approximate picture of a person's features in coordination with the General Department of Artificial Intelligence.

In addition, the Deputy Director of the General Department of Forensic Evidence and Criminology for Administrative Affairs, Brigadier General Ahmed Matar Al Muhairi, said that the image attached to the person came after great efforts by the experts of the Department of Forensic Medicine and Electronic Forensic Evidence Department, after examining the body that was found about a month ago, It is in a state of severe decomposition in all landmarks and features as a result of its exposure to factors and climatic conditions and corpse erosion due to marine organisms.

He added that the difficult challenge was also represented in the absence of a DNA fingerprint in the department concerned with storing DNA samples for comparison, in addition to the absence of fingerprints due to their decomposition and damage, which required work to devise smart solutions to try to know the expected shape of a man based on the vital data that Collected by forensic experts and discussed with the Electronic Forensic Evidence Management team to draw a 3D picture.

Al Muhairi praised the efforts of the work team, which was meticulous and applied with great professionalism the forensic and specialized sciences in collecting vital data and information on the body, and applied smart and modern techniques in reaching the expected shape, calling on members of the public to get to know the owner of the body, and to provide any information about it by calling the call center at number 901 And if the caller is from outside Dubai, he must add 04 before the contact number.

While the forensic consultant Dr. Yunus Al-Balushi stated that the team overcame several challenges, including identifying the color of the person's skin, which disappeared due to the stay of the body in the water for a long time and the disappearance of the body pigments, indicating that forensic experts were able, through specialized tests, to obtain the expected color. It is the wheaty skin that the people of Asia and the Middle East enjoy.

And he stated that they worked in the second stage to verify the hair color and length, and were able to verify this through a single hair that was in the body after the decomposition, and after conducting specialized forensic examinations on it, it was found that the deceased had thick hair before his death and the length of his hair was 3 cm.

He added that they later determined the person’s life expectancy through the use of orthopedics and pelvic osteometry, and reached that the life expectancy ranges between 35 to 45 years, pointing out that this type of examination always contributes to narrowing the search for potential missing persons by specifying the category. Approximate age.

He referred to the experts who later conducted an examination of the skull to verify its type, shape and size. They were also able to measure the thickness of the skin, the color of the eyes and other necessary vital information. They documented it in the anthropology report, and sent the report to the visual evidence analysis section in the Forensic Evidence Department. e.

Visual evidence procedures

In turn, the head of the Visual Evidence Analysis Department, Major Dr. Hamad Al-Awar, said that the department began its mission as soon as it obtained the “Anthropology” report from the forensic medicine, to work on digitally reconstructing the face by taking an X-ray image, and conducting a scan Three-dimensional for the head and skull region using the latest technologies adopted in the General Department of Forensic Evidence and Criminology.

He added that the department worked in cooperation with the Virtual Training Center in the General Administration of Artificial Intelligence on the use of 3D scanning techniques and the special 3D drawing program, with the aim of obtaining a technical restoration of the face down to the approximate image of the person with a high match rate.

He stressed that the method of face restoration in police work is used after the difficulty of applying all scientific and traditional means to identify the identity of a person, in an attempt to identify the closest perception of the truth, based on the available data, pointing out that Dubai Police has been working to restore the face digitally since the year 2007, and they have developed work in this field into three-dimensional.

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