International experts discuss in Dubai drug control, confront cyber crimes, and enhance aviation security
Dubai, May 14 / WAM / The World Police Summit continued its activities for the second day at the Dubai World Trade Center, amid a wide participation of senior security leaders and law enforcement experts from different countries of the world, to discuss the most prominent security challenges, ways to develop police work, and enhance international cooperation.
The second day of the summit, organized by the Dubai Police in partnership with “DXB Life”, and with the support of international organizations, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime “UNDC” and Europol, a series of conferences, strategic sessions and workshops, focused on four main axes: drug control, police operations, aviation security, security and cybersecurity.
The event is held under the slogan “Designing the future coming from police work”, and covers 12 police axes within four specialized conferences, dealing with several topics, most notably cyber crime, border security, human trafficking, and road safety.
His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Hamad Al -Kuwaiti, President of the Cyber Security Council of the UAE government, stressed that the UAE is working to enhance societal culture with cybersecurity, pointing to the “Cyber Pulse” initiative that aims to enable community members to be the first line of defense.
He stressed the importance of the human element in the face of cyber threats, pointing to the trend towards the fifth industrial revolution, and the need to prepare to face the harmful uses of technology. A session entitled “Intelligence -based Security for International Events” discussed the importance of integration between the intelligence services and police operations to secure major events, in which a group of security officials from France, Austria, India, the United Kingdom and the United States participated, along with Major General Abdullah Al -Ghaithi, Assistant Commander -in -Chief for Operations Affairs in Dubai Police.
In the anti -drug axis, the “Global Drug Trafficking” session dealt with the role of statistics and data analysis in enhancing the effectiveness of law enforcement.
Angela Mai, head of the research and trend analysis branch in “UNODC”, said that drug smuggling is a global challenge that requires international cooperation, stressing that illegal markets are witnessing remarkable growth in the production and smuggling of cocaine, and expanded in the markets that are created towards the Middle East and Asia.
She warned against using new materials that are difficult to discover, which requires the development of monitoring and rapid response mechanisms, noting that the global report issued by the office annually on June 6 will include data on more than two million drug control operations.
For his part, Brigadier Khaled bin Moyeza, Deputy Director of the General Department of Narcotics Control in Dubai Police, stressed that strengthening international cooperation has become a necessity to confront organized crime, stressing the importance of bridging the gap between field practices and theoretical frameworks for drug control.
In the “Control of Terrorism and the Emerging Threats in Aviation Security”, Peter Nelson, Police Commissioner in the “Europol”, stressed the importance of building flexible societies to face the challenges facing the aviation sector, including cyber threats, and the wrong use of drones, pointing to the need to raise the level of security awareness among all airports workers.
The session “Control of Cyber Crime by Borders”, in which representatives of “UNDC” and the US Federal Investigation Office “FBI”, participated in the importance of international cooperation in addressing cyber attacks, especially with the increasing challenges related to judicial jurisdiction, data privacy, and the complexity of evidence collection operations
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