3451 Dubai Police rescue missions in 5 months… and 6 minutes response time

The Dubai Police General Department of Transport and Rescue carried out 3,451 various missions during the first five months of 2026, while the total missions it carried out during the entire year 2025 amounted to 8,455 missions, according to the director of the department, Major General Rashid Khalifa Al Falasi, who indicated that the missions included dealing with complex land incidents that required the removal of trapped people, providing support in fires, in addition to rescue operations for people injured in fall and entrapment accidents, as well as children and people trapped in… Cars, homes and elevators.

Al Falasi told Emirates Today that the average response time to emergency cases decreased to only about six minutes, attributing this to the stationing of 15 rescue points in strategic areas in the Emirate of Dubai to reach accident sites within record time.

He added that the tasks carried out between January and May 2026 included 1,028 off-street transport operations, 416 fire incidents, 355 missions to secure events, 315 collision accidents, 247 missions to open house doors, 173 missions to provide assistance, 139 cases of vehicle deterioration, 109 cases of opening car doors, 100 falls, 97 vehicles transported by net, and 88 vehicles transported to centers and departments. 74 missions to open elevator doors, 74 raid missions, 53 positioning missions, 43 missions using force vehicles, in addition to 36 cases of siege, seven fake accidents, six missions using force bikes, four search missions, two emergency landings, and two cases of cars stuck in sand, in addition to other specific reports. Al Falasi added that the administration carried out, during the year 2025, a total of 8,455 various missions, distributed among 1,804 off-street transportation operations, 1,372 fire accidents, 829 missions to open house doors, 783 collision accidents, 660 missions to secure events, 471 missions using force vehicles, 404 vehicles transported to centers and departments, 377 cases of opening car doors, 303 raid missions, 294 missions to open elevator doors, 256 vehicles transported by net, and 255 missions to provide assistance, There were 204 cases of vehicle deterioration, 58 falls, 55 strandings, 31 missions using power bikes, 19 fake accidents, 18 cases of cars stuck in sand, eight search missions, seven emergency landings, and other tasks directly related to the nature of the administration’s jurisdiction.

Al Falasi stressed that these numbers reflect the efficiency of the transport and rescue teams and their readiness to deal with various reports and incidents around the clock, in accordance with the highest standards of field response, which contributes to enhancing the security and safety of society, and protecting lives and property.

In turn, Director of the Search and Rescue Department, Colonel Khaled Al Hammadi, said that Dubai Police rescue teams only move to complex incidents, and thanks to the continuous training and advanced equipment provided by the command, they have reached a high degree of professionalism in dealing with very precise and difficult tasks, whether in major natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods or at the level of traffic and individual accidents.

He added that one of the incidents that rescue teams recently responded to was the case of a European woman who fell into a very narrow corridor and was injured, and work teams intervened to rescue her, taking into account her health condition. Al-Hammadi pointed out another accident involving a worker at a construction site who fell from a height onto an iron rod that penetrated his body. He was cut down with all the professionalism of the rescue team and taken to the hospital with the iron piece inside him, and he was treated by doctors in the hospital.

He explained that the rescue teams also dealt with about 13 reports during the rain, including difficult cases such as a person clinging to an electricity pole, which required precise measures to ensure that the rescuer or the person was not exposed to any danger due to electricity.

Al Hammadi pointed out that there are strange incidents that Dubai Police rescuers face, and they sometimes intervene to carry out tasks that are difficult to handle, and may force them to be present inside operating rooms to help save a person, such as a precise cutting operation for which hospitals do not have equipment.

He stated that one of the serious accidents that rescue teams recently responded to was a collision between a truck and a bus, which resulted in a number of people being trapped, which required parts of the two vehicles to be cut to help recover the bodies and evacuate the injured.

He stressed that dealing with car accidents by the work teams in the administration does not happen randomly, but that each accident has a specific nature and a plan that the accident commander must develop, but rather prepare a second and third alternative plan in the event that matters become complicated, because there are situations that are sometimes not expected. He pointed out that one of the accidents that can be inferred from this is a collision between a pickup vehicle and a truck, and when the rescue team examined the first car with the paramedics, they saw a deceased person (the car driver), and another deceased next to him as a result of the violent collision. By truck.

He pointed out that immediately after preparing the handling scenario for exhuming the bodies, everyone was surprised that a third person who was sitting between them was still alive, even if he was seriously injured. He seemed to have taken a protective stance before the moment of collision, and the necessary steps were taken to treat him.