Dubai Police to Employ Self-Driving Patrol Vehicles
- Dubai Police and a Singapore-based OTSAW Digital have teamed up to develop self-driving police vehicles
- Dubai Police signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with OTSAW Digital to deploy the new autonomous outdoor security robots as part of the Smart Dubai initiative
- The self-driving patrol vehicles will be on display at Gitex 2017 in Dubai
- Self-driving patrols will be equipped with cameras that will be connected to Dubai Police HQ to show live footage of what’s going on in the city’s streets, as well as sensors and a drone to identify and report suspicious activity
- Dubai Police is the main regulatory authority in the emirate, with a force of 15000, functioning for over 60 years in Dubai
- Dubai Police launched six new projects in June 2017, including data centres, new services for their website and in order to improve their services and productivity
- The general department of smart services is developing a smart Dubai Police Data Centre to meet the requirements of the Dubai Government’s plan for development, transformation into a smart city, and preparation of efficient setup to accommodate a big amount of data over the Internet
- Dubai Police launched an “AI Policeman” at GISEC 2017, which is a robocop that functions through Artificial Intelligence and smart services technology
- Dubai Police have beach buggies on patrol at Dubai beaches to provide immediate services to tourists and visitors at the beach
