Abu Dhabi road crash claims one
ABU DHABI: One person was killed and 8 others sustained serious to minor injuries in a collision that involved 4 vehicles under Al Mafraq Bridge in the direction of Abu Dhabi on Thursday. The injured people were admitted to Al Mafraq Hospital.
The Command and Control Centre at Abu Dhabi Police’s Central Operations Sector received a report on a collision that involved 4 vehicles and police patrols and ambulances were rushed to the site.
Preliminary investigations showed the collision was caused by one of the vehicles suddenly swerving, colliding with the left barriers of the street as the driver busied himself while driving, Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Musallam Mohammed Al Junaibi, Head of Serious Accident Investigation Section, Abu Dhabi Police, said, adding that not leaving enough distance between vehicles was another cause of the multiple vehicle collision.
DUBAI: The security situation in Jebel Ali area “Dubai’s economic nerve,” Is Better than BEFORE,
Dubai Police declared on Friday. The announcement came during an annual inspectional visit by the Dubai Police Assistant CommanderinChief of Criminal Investigation Major General Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri to the Jebel Ali Police Station. He stressed the importance of the area for its economic, tourist, industrial and urban hubs.
“It is considered the economic nerve of the emirate and a magnet for investors, businessmen and tourists.
PROGRAMMES
“Security and traffic programmes must be implemented to combat crime, reduce traffic fatalities, provide security services and increase performance to ensure the achievement of Dubai Police’s STRATEGIC Goals.”
He was welcomed by the police station’s director Brigadier Dr. Adel Al Suwaidi, the Director of the Monitoring and Inspection Department Colonel Khalid Saeed Bin Sulaiman and a number of senior officers.
Al Mansouri praised the stability of the area’s security situation, attributed to various programmes aimed at monitoring and curbing negative phenomena through meetings and workshops with security guards.
In one of the programmes benefiting security guards, they are taught modern techniques of how to deal with suspicious cases, and provided with the station’s contact numbers to report any such case.
Last year, the programmes’ team verified 710 suspects, apprehended 66 wanted persons, 60 violators and 23 bootleggers, seized 49 wanted cars and distributed 1,600 housing security kits in the jurisdiction area.
The police station also managed to settle cheque cases worth around Dhs183 million in 2017 compared to the settlement of Dhs135 million worth of cheque cases in 2016, Al Mansouri was briefed.
CAMPAIGNS
He was also briefed on statistics of the traffic section, where traffic accidents decreased last year compared to 2016 as a result of the intensification of traffic campaigns.
The police station implemented five awareness lectures benefiting 250 drivers and seized 109 bicycles of lawbreakers.
It aims at using modern techniques to cover the largest segment of workers.
Its customer satisfaction section registered 10,347 smart transactions last year compared to 6,117 in 2016. It contacted 8, 658 victims in both traffic and criminal cases last year compared to 11,259.