COVID-19: Ride along with Dubai police bikers unit

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00:00Dubai Police always believe of the importance of community participation between the public

00:08and police.

00:09Volunteers across Dubai were invited by Dubai Police to participate in Dubai Police Bikers

00:14Unit.

00:15It's a step to increase the awareness among society about the precautionary measures to

00:19curb COVID-19.

00:20I'm Ali from Gulf News and tonight we will take you on a ride along with Dubai Police

00:26Bikers Unit at JPR.

00:30Dubai Police Initiative called Ride with Dubai Bikers Unit came under a directive by Lieutenant

00:35General Abdullah Khalifa Al-Murry, Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, to encourage people to participate

00:39in the voluntary work as part of their social responsibility.

00:42We've been doing it since 14th of May.

00:45It's been like 18 days right now.

00:47We've opened the opportunity to participate with us on our website.

00:51There was a link and people started applying.

00:53In the first three days, we've got around 4,500 requests to participate.

00:58More than 168 volunteers participated with us from 30 different nationalities in 564

01:05different patrols.

01:06Including those nationalities was an aim that we were looking after because as you know

01:11Dubai is an international city and holds within it different nationalities.

01:15We were aiming at including most of the public because everyone is responsible in assuring

01:22and following these proactive measures.

01:25The police are not alone in this.

01:26We are all into this mission, into this aim to follow up the procedures and to look after

01:33the public so the public will follow these procedures.

01:36More than 6,000 people applied for the initiative to paddle in certain Dubai locations and share

01:41information with the public on the precautionary and preventive measures enforced to help combat

01:46the COVID-19 pandemic like the importance of social distancing, wearing masks and gloves

01:50as well as complying with the movement restrictions.

01:53Violators will be subject of 3,000 dirham fine if they caught violating the orders.

01:58The volunteers' responsibility is to look after the proactive measures which we were

02:02talking about to guide the public into following up these procedures.

02:06If the matter and the situation requires the police to intervene, the police personnel

02:10will intervene.

02:11Each patrol will have a police personnel within it with a group of volunteers.

02:14We are assuring that in each group of volunteers there will be a police personnel to intervene

02:20when the situation arises.

02:21We are here, Dubai Police, stabbing people because it's around 12am.

02:31So we are here in JPR, they are stabbing people, asking if they have a permit to move, if they

02:36are complying with the precautionary measures like wearing masks and gloves.

02:41The ride with the Dubai Police bikers unit, it's really nice, I mean, you see the city

02:55and you see a lot of people really complying with the precautionary measures taken by the

03:02authority.

03:03I am finding it a very interesting experience because it's very enlightening to see how

03:08the police work and how people are responding to the rules and it's very astonishing to

03:15see how many people are following the rules and we haven't seen that many people out,

03:20which speaks a lot about the awareness that's spread around the UAE and I'm happy to be

03:26part of something that's really big.

03:29The COVID-19 pandemic has already taught us so much, not least the importance of looking

03:34out for our neighbours and each other during hard times.

03:37Such duties were summarised by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum who

03:41said everyone is responsible for everyone.

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