{"id":36009,"date":"2021-07-25T16:19:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T12:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=36009"},"modified":"2021-07-25T16:19:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T12:19:40","slug":"dubai-police-handle-42k-calls-during-eid-al-adha-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2021\/07\/25\/dubai-police-handle-42k-calls-during-eid-al-adha-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Police handle 42K calls during Eid Al Adha holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Dubai Police&#8217;s emergency hotline (999) received 37,422 calls during the Eid Al Adha holiday from 20th-23rd July, while the force&#8217;s non-emergency toll number (901) received 5,456 calls in the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colonel Turki bin Fares, Director of the Command and Control Centre of Dubai Police&#8217;s Operations Department, said they also handled 568 emails and 475 live chats from customers who contacted the force\u2019s (901) call centre for general inquires, feedback, and technical help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Col. Bin Fares further revealed that they recorded many traffic accidents across the emirate during Eid Al Adha. &#8220;The majority of accidents recorded were mainly caused by tailgating, speeding and failing to abide by lane discipline,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Col. Bin Fares also urged the public to understand the difference between 901 and the emergency hotline 999 and be more mindful of the calls they make to the hotline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dubai Police&#8217;s emergency hotline (999) received 37,422 calls during the Eid Al Adha holiday from 20th-23rd July, while the force&#8217;s non-emergency toll number (901) received 5,456 calls in the same period. Colonel Turki bin Fares, Director of the Command and Control Centre of Dubai Police&#8217;s Operations Department, said they also handled 568 emails and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36011,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36009\/revisions\/36011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}