Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council of the Emirate of Dubai, the 12th Police Policing Forum was organized on the fourth and final day to discuss ways of implementing AI services in traffic management on the streets. Which contributes to reducing the number of accidents, especially leading to injuries and deaths.

Major General Eng. Mohamed Saif Al-Zafin, Assistant Commander-in-Chief of Operations, witnessed the sessions that discussed the impact of AI techniques and smart cars on road safety, and the importance of awareness programs in reducing deaths. Reduction of accidents, and future prospects for the traffic sector as the AI ​​sector grows.

Star program

Brigadier Ahmed Kasab Al-Hamoudi, from the Fujairah Police, gave an explanation on the Emirates Government Excellence Program, the "World Star Program". He pointed out that the program evaluates and measures the performance of each service center in the Ministry of the Interior on the scale of the evaluation of "two to seven stars" through an evaluation process based on two principles, focusing on the service of the employees and achieve coherence and efficiency.

He explained that the program comes in line with the vision of the UAE 2021, pointing out that, based on the guidance of HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, the ministry worked to form a team to develop customer service centers and the culture of the program was spread on the police salary and strengthen Skills of employees through specialized programs in this area, which contributed to the achievement of advanced figures and achieve high indicators in the happiness of dealers.

Brigadier General Al-Hamoudi also explained the most innovative projects in Fujairah Police, namely "Smart Map", "Makani" and "Traffic Village".

Technical control system

In his turn, Major Khamis Al-Ayali of the Dubai Police explained the system of management and control of the technical control devices approved by the General Directorate of Traffic in Dubai Police. He pointed out that the system is an integrated technical system to connect and control the radar control devices and provide the police with all information about these devices Data, location and faults.

The system allows monitoring the performance of technical control systems, checking the integrity of the controls, measuring the operational efficiency of each radar device, as well as inquiring about periodic maintenance reports and providing summaries of the speeds.

He stressed that the system serves the objectives of the General Command of Dubai Police in supporting the government initiatives in smart transformation and adoption of AI techniques and ensure the continuity of the work of the devices efficiently.

Self-driving cars

For her part, Dr. Nicola Scala, a psychologist in the field of traffic science from the University of Pegaso in Italy, presented a working paper entitled "Autonomous car without driver ... Do we trust it?" Indicating that technological development and AI requires the workers in the traffic sector to exploit this development in order to reduce traffic accidents in the future.

She noted that technological development and AI techniques will lead us in the future to the presence of cars without drivers in the street, but our research and studies have shown that young people are comfortable with those cars, but older people have concerns in this regard, and there are also fears in the use of these smart cars in schools and neighborhoods Population.

She noted that a study conducted with the European police forces showed that a large percentage of officers 90% confirmed their lack of self-confidence cars to carry out police tasks, because of concerns about safety and security, but they stressed that these smart cars can be used to perform certain services in simple Dubai police, not in all police operations.

Awareness programs

Col. Paolo Sestra, Executive Director of Road Safety of the Italian National Police, spoke about the role of awareness programs for road users in reducing the number of deaths in traffic accidents. He pointed out that human behavior on the roads is one of the most important factors of accidents, especially those who are not involved in safety operations.

The European Union commits member states to work to reduce traffic accidents. A study has been carried out, which concluded that it is necessary to continue to develop educational programs for road users, especially for young people.

He pointed out that the programs of education and education must contain intelligent techniques, AI, training and continuing education, stressing that the European Union has road deaths in difficult accidents by 20% and hopes in 2020 to reduce this ratio to 10% depending on the importance of Adopting national policies for each country along with the need for strict educational and educational programs and a driver's behavior control system, and providing training programs for driving instructors, not just trainees.

Degree of infection

Dr. Joe Barnes, from the University of Lefra, UK, presented a paper entitled "Traffic injury severity", which reflects the severity of injury caused by accidents according to the user guide in the European Union.

The rate of injuries began since 1969 and was based on the division of casualties based on whether or not the death occurred, but currently the injuries are evaluated to 6 levels depending on the ability to be treated medically or not, as the least degree is a minor injury can be treated or grade 6 is injury May lead to deaths.

Accident Investigation

Professor Dietmar Otte, from the Hanover Institute of Evidence in the German Republic, presented an explanation of the methods of investigating traffic accidents that caused deaths, reviewing a range of incidents and methods of investigation in Germany and how they were returned.