Dubai Police hosts a workshop "Preventing the exploitation of social media to promote drugs" Next October

Dubai, August 24 / WAM / The Criminal Information Center for Narcotics Control of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, in cooperation with the Dubai Police General Command represented by the International Protection Center in the General Administration of Narcotics Control, organizes a workshop entitled “Preventing the exploitation of social media to promote drugs”, in next October in Dubai.

Brigadier Khaled bin Moyeza, Director of the General Department of Narcotics Control in Dubai Police, said that the workshop comes in implementation of the decisions of His Highness and Excellency the Interior Ministers of the Cooperation Council in their forty -first meeting held in Doha last November, with the aim of discussing the best ways to prevent misuse of social media platforms in selling and promoting drugs.

Brigadier Bin Moyazah explained that the workshop will address the most important strategies and ways, exchange experiences and experiences in reducing illegal promotion via the Internet and social media, in order to recommend recommendations that contribute to enhancing capabilities and capabilities to confront this phenomenon, and preserving societies from its negative effects, indicating that the workshop will establish the principle of community responsibility unit in combating the drug scourge and reducing its damage.

For his part, Brigadier Dr. Abdel Rahman Sharaf Al -Maamari, Director of the International Protection Center, stressed that the invitation will be directed to all social media companies operating in the UAE to participate in the workshop, with the aim of coming up with joint recommendations that achieve the safety of users, combating harmful content, enhancing transparency, and protecting privacy, as well as reviewing the efforts of companies and their proposals regarding confronting criminal gang attempts to exploit digital platforms in promoting drugs

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