Dubai Police: "Operation Microscope" topples an international gang specialized in stealing villas

The Dubai Police General Headquarters, in a qualitative operation dubbed "Operation Microscope", managed to overthrow an organized international criminal gang that specialized in stealing residential villas and targeting bank customers, after it placed its members "under the microscope", and monitored their movements and movements outside and inside the country with extreme accuracy, up to the zero hour, raiding their residence, and arresting them.
During a press conference held at the General Directorate of Criminal Investigations and Investigations, the Dubai Police General Headquarters announced the details of the "microscope operation", in the presence of His Excellency Major General Jamal Salem Al Jallaf, Director of the General Department of Criminal Investigations and Investigations, Brigadier Mohammed Aqeel Ahli, Deputy Director of the General Directorate of Investigations and Criminal Investigations for Research and Investigation Affairs, Colonel Saeed Al Ayali, Deputy Director of the General Department of Investigations and Criminal Investigations for Administration and Control Affairs, Colonel Saeed Al Qamzi, Assistant Director General for Criminal Operations Affairs, Colonel Adel Al-Joker, Assistant Director General for Research and Investigation Affairs, Colonel Abdullah Mohammed, Director of the Criminal Investigation Department, and a number of officers and journalists.
His Excellency Major General Jamal Salem Al Jallaf confirmed that the case began after Dubai Police received several reports that villas in Sakina complexes were stolen by unknown persons, who took advantage of the travel of their residents outside the country, broke their doors, and were able to enter them under cover of darkness, and steal money and jewelry.
Major General Al Jallaf added that Dubai Police formed a working team from the General Department of Criminal Investigations to follow up on reports and search for those involved, until it was able to reach the identity of 4 people belonging to an organized gang specialized in robberies and theft of the nationality of a Latin American country, and they came to the country for the purpose of theft.
He added that the team found that the gang was able to leave the country before these thefts were reported, and by following them internationally, it was found that they left for one of the countries in the Middle East and then to a neighboring country through land ports.
Major General Al Jallaf said: Based on the experience of detectives in the Dubai Police General Headquarters and from their work in following up on these gangs on the ground, the work team made sure that the gang members left for the Middle East countries and did not leave for their homeland, and the search, investigation and collection of evidence led to the fact that the issue of their return to the country is just a time, and therefore they were placed under the microscope in anticipation of their return.
He added that after about a month, the work team was able to monitor the gang members through the cameras of the "Oyoun" program during their entry into the country, so they were allowed to enter to follow them and monitor them by the field work teams, in order to detect whether they had any people involved with them in those reports or people who provide logistical support to them inside the country or inferred where they hid the loot in previous reports.
Major General Al-Jallaf added that the work team was able to follow the most accurate movements of the gang after placing them under close surveillance 24 hours a day in all the steps they are implementing, as they went to car rental shops, rented a car, and used it to go to residential complexes for the purpose of monitoring and stealing villas, and after a short period, they replaced the car with another, so as not to draw attention to them while they were moving, and all these steps were done under the eyes of detectives.
Major General Al Jallaf explained that the gang members were unable this time after coming to the country to steal any residential villa, due to the presence of precautionary measures supervised by the Dubai Police General Headquarters represented in the Crime Reduction Department to reduce those crimes, which required residential complexes to put guards and modern surveillance cameras, lighting dark areas, educating and motivating the community to participate in the "Housing Security" program, which is also supervised by the Dubai Police General Headquarters. The gang shifted their activity from the evening hours to the day, by taking the decision to target bank customers, who carry large sums of money in their possession.
He added that the gang was targetedOne of the bank customers, and managed to steal more than 60 thousand dirhams, in a criminal manner by puncturing the tire of the victim's car, while another surprised him by stealing money from inside the car, but their crime was under the shadow and control of the policemen, where they were seized, and the amount of money stolen from the bank customer was seized.
Through investigations, they confessed to several thefts within several countries they visited.
The Dubai Police General Headquarters motivates citizens and residents to subscribe to the "Smart Home Security" program service through the Dubai Police application on smart phones, and through the Dubai Police website on the World Wide Web, to further enhance security and safety.
Brigadier General Mohammed Aqeel Ahli, Deputy Director of the General Department of Investigations and Criminal Investigations for Research and Investigation Affairs, explained that the housing security service is a preventive security service to protect the homes of the public while they spend their vacations inside or outside the country or during their travel for any other reasons so that homes are monitored through surveillance cameras and sensors to enhance security and safety in them.
Brigadier General Mohammed Aqeel Ahli also called on the owners of residential villas to the importance of placing surveillance cameras in the vicinity of their homes to further enhance security and safety in them, in addition to not violating labor laws in employing violating labor, or bringing violating maintenance workers or any unlicensed companies or using unlicensed farmers to supervise home gardens or violators of nationality and residence laws, which increases the chances of homes being robbed and that most of the theft reports that were registered with us were caused by those Irregularities.
At the level of bank customers, Major General Al-Jallaf stressed the importance of not carrying large sums of money by customers while leaving banks, and the use of cars of specialized money transfer companies in the event that the amounts are large, in addition to the need to take caution and caution always, especially if carrying money and walking with it on the public street, and beware of some trying to distract them, as the gang did by puncturing the tire of the bank customer's car.
Major General Al Jallaf called on members of the community to contribute to enhancing security and reducing crime by reporting illegal abuses through the "Police Eye" service provided by Dubai Police on its smart application, or by calling the call center 901 or on the emergency number 999.