100 suspects arrested for promoting via GPS technology
Dubai Police tracks down "drug delivery" with "unknown messages"
A message repeatedly delivered to members of the public.
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Colonel Abdullah Al-Khayat: "There are fears that teenagers will respond to the messages of the promoters out of curiosity."
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“Peace be upon you, friend. Saman is present. There is hashish. Crystal Larica Tramadol Colo Saman is present.”
The above is not just a text or voice message that is received randomly through the “WhatsApp” application from unknown foreign numbers, but it actually conceals, according to Dubai Police, a suspicious activity that is closer to a drug delivery service (Delivery), which was monitored and confronted with a systematic campaign that achieved field and educational success. The "Anonymous Messages" campaign.
The campaign, according to the Director of Hemaya International Center in Dubai Police, Colonel Abdullah Al-Khayyat, resulted in the arrest of 100 accused of distributing drugs in this way, as well as a significant increase in the public reports index through the “e-crime” platform by up to 158% within three months (the campaign period). ).
In detail, Colonel Abdullah Al-Khayyat told "Emirates Today" that Dubai Police monitored suspicious activity, akin to "Delivery", but for drug delivery, which is messages received through a social networking application that includes the promotion of several types of drugs, such as hashish, larica, crystal and others. .
He confirmed the launch of the "Anonymous Messages" campaign to counter this activity through two parallel lines, the first in the field through the General Administration for Drug Control, and the second awareness-raising through the "Hamaya" center in cooperation with the partners in the Roads and Transport Authority and the Central Bank.
He pointed out that the campaign achieved great success, so it was decided to renew it systematically according to the directives of the Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, Lieutenant-General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, in light of the strong response from community members, pointing out that more than 190 million awareness messages were repeatedly sent to members of the public, and the results were In the increase in the index of communications through the call center (901) by 33%.
The notification index also increased to 632 reports, compared to 229 reports during the whole 13 months, at an estimated rate of 158%.
He explained that the Roads Authority promoted the campaign with more than 77 million messages in various modes of transportation, in addition to 91 million messages received by community members through automated teller machines.
On the nature of the drug delivery, Al-Khayyat said that the promoters are constantly developing their methods, as they rely on modern technologies to communicate with users, so they send these messages to them, and once the offer is approved, it is agreed on a specific place where the drugs are buried, to be received by the user after transferring money to the promoter.
He added, "Despite these challenges, the control agencies are confronting them and outperforming their methods, and have managed to arrest more than 100 suspects since this method of drug trafficking was detected."
He stressed that the cooperation of community members and their communication with the Dubai Police, whether through the free call center or through the "e-cream" platform provided by the Dubai Police through its smart application, or its website, reflects the public's awareness and keenness to enhance community security.
He pointed out that clear instructions were given to the public, represented in communicating with the police, sending a copy of the message he received, and blocking the number from which it was received.
He explained that the majority of recipients of these messages, especially adults, implement the instructions that come to them from the police, or withhold the numbers on their own, but there is no doubt that there are fears that some, especially teenagers, will respond to them out of curiosity, and they communicate with the promoters to try buying drugs with this method. Therefore, the Dubai Police are doing their utmost to address this phenomenon.
He pointed out the need for parents to educate their children about the dangers of responding to these messages, and to warn them that this may put them under legal accountability.
Readers of "Emirates Today" confirmed that they had received repeated messages from unknown numbers, in broken Arabic, stating that they could obtain any type of drug in an easy way, pointing out that whenever they withheld a number, they received it from another number.
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E » He received a text message from which he understood only the word hashish, and later realized that it contained an offer of different types of drugs, so he withheld the number thinking that someone was joking with him, but later received a voice message from another number of someone telling him that he could deliver drugs to him, so he realized that There is a suspicious and systematic activity that is mostly managed from abroad.
Adel Mahmoud stated that he discovered by chance that these messages had been received on the phone of his 13-year-old son, through a social media application, and what increased his concern was that the child did not tell him the content of the messages when he received them.
He added that he sat with his son and explained to him the necessity of telling him if he received similar messages from unknown persons, pointing out that the awareness campaign carried out by the Dubai Police in this regard is very important, and without it, he would not have realized the seriousness of the messages received by his son.
• 190 million awareness messages received by members of the public through various platforms.
• An increase in the e-crime reporting index by 158% in 3 months.
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