Dubai Police carry out 2,543 missions in 4 months

The General Department of Transport and Rescue at Dubai Police carried out 2,543 diverse missions during the first four months of this year, Colonel Yahya Hussein Mohammed, deputy director of the department, revealed.

- Somaya Saad

These included complex rescue missions, securing events, participating in mock incidents and providing support during fires in addition to a number of other incidents in which teams contributed to saving lives, he said.

Mohammed explained that the missions carried out in co-ordination with Dubai Civil Defence included 57 difficult missions, 222 event security missions, 5 mock accidents and 62 fires.

The department also removed 451 vehicles from roads, rescued people who were trapped in cars, elevators and homes and others who fell from heights or were trapped in narrow spaces, holes or valleys due to floods, he added.