Dubai Police nab European thieves in 10 hours
DUBAI: In less than 10 hours, the General Department of Criminal Investigation in Dubai arrested a European gang specialised in burglary and jewellery thet, ater robbing a car showroom and stealing valuable jewels and watches, valued at about Dhs13 million.
Lieutenant General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, the Commander-in-chief, affirmed that the Department’s teams made great effort to arrest the gangsters and return the stolen items to their owners, despite the lack of evidence.
Al Marri said, “Thanks to the full readiness of the field teams and the good use of artificial intelligence techniques, the perpetrators were arrested in record time.”
Major General Expert Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri, Assistant Commander-in-chief for Criminal Investigation Affairs, said the gang took advantage of the poor security measures in the car showroom, which facilitated the crime, using an iron piece to remove one of the glass windows and fleeing with the booty on motorcycles, which were also stolen, to an anonymous destination.
Al Mansouri pointed out that the gang consisted of 3 Europeans who were professionals in burglary and thet.
Brigadier Jamal Salem Al Jallaf, Director of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at Dubai Police, explained that the suspects worked within organised gangs of robbers.
Al Jallaf pointed out that details date back to an earlier time, when the Dubai Police received a report of a thet in a car showroom. When teams rushed to the scene, he added, an Arab national, who reported to the police, said that when he went inside the showroom at about 9am, he discovered that all the displayed jewellery disappeared.
Al Jallaf added that upon receiving the report, a team was formed to collect evidence from the crime scene.
According to Al Jallaf, the team set a quick plan to apprehend the perpetrators before they escaped with the stolen items. Teams also identified their identities.
Al Jallaf indicated that ater collecting all the evidence, the gangsters were arrested before they fled and the stolen valuables were recovered.
Recently, an African worker and his runaway accomplice were prosecuted by Dubai courts on robbery charges, ater atacking and mugging a couple in Naif, Dubai.
The case dates back to february, when the couple was walking towards a big market at midnight.