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Monday, June 21, 2010     GET REAL

After Mossad hit, UAE upgrades security plan: 'We will have cameras everywhere'

ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates has unveiled a security plan.

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The UAE police has released a plan to enhance security in the port city of Dubai. Under the plan, the UAE would spend $136 million to bolster an advanced command, control, communications, computers and intelligence system.

"We will have cameras everywhere," Dubai police chief Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim said.


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In an interview with the UAE daily National, Tamim, regarded as the leading security official in the Dubai emirate, said the project called for the procurement and installation of thousands of cameras, Middle East Newsline reported. The general said the plan would augment the current 25,000 security cameras in the city.

"We need to work according to a well-studied strategic plan and not only react to events as they come along," Tamim said on June 20.

Officials said the Dubai security network succeeded in tracking suspected assassins of Hamas procurement chief Mahmoud Al Mabhouh in January 2010. At least 32 people, said to have been agents of Israel's Mossad, were said to have been involved in tracking and killing Al Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel.

"With the Al Mabhouh murder we were able to play back time through the footage captured by cameras, and after going through 1,700 hours of CCTV footage we were able to pull the strings together and identify the suspects," Tamim said. "Sometimes we are lucky with cases, sometimes the constant following up pays off, but what always works is our intelligence gathering."

Tamim has helped lead a UAE project to bolster security amid threats from insurgents and organized crime. The Dubai force, bolstered by advanced technology, contains 16,500 police officers and another 4,000 administrative staff.

"We are working on the security for each and every aspect of Dubai, whether it's an environment security, commercial or tourism security," Tamim said. "The new technology would allow police officers to attach a GPS detector on cars through a special bullet, and we will then be able to follow the car by satellite."



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