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ZAA prevented over 50 cases of suicides in 2024 with “Crime Maps”, it is best revealed

ZAA prevented over 50 cases of suicides in 2024 with “Crime Maps”, it is best revealed

Image used for an illustrative target. Photo: File

Image used for an illustrative target. Photo: File

The UAA authorities prevented several crimes and improved the country’s security, using artificial intelligence to develop a map of crime that predicted problems before its occurrence. A senior civil servant explained how this system was used.

“We prevented over 50 suicide last year,” revealed Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti, head of the cyber security department. “We prevented several murder crimes, drug trafficking and fraud.”

He spoke at the AI ​​Everything conference, which began on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi. The criminal map initiative is a cooperation between the ZAA Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Cyber ​​security security department.

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“Thanks to algorithms based on the history of crimes and global trends (map), it provides for crimes and gives us notifications and reports,” said Salem Ali Juma Al Zaabi, an extraordinary, crisis and catastrophe at the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the UEA. “We work directly with the Cybersecurity Security Council and we try to push as much as possible to be ready, free our thinking and imagination about new acts of crime.”

Keeping up with crime

Al Zaabi added that one of the greatest obstacles to the government is keeping up with the ingenuity of criminals, and the crime map helps in this aspect.

“We must cooperate internally or abroad, with several entities, to predict crimes so that we can be ready and understand new acts of crime when it appears,” he said. “And we must prepare prosecutors, thinkingly to examine such crimes. How can you examine something you don’t know or are not ready? “

However, Al Kuwait added that privacy and information security are of great importance for the country.

“This is our number one priority,” he added. “Many monitored people committed or initiated something earlier. We carry out an analysis based on data and history and this gives a very good prevention rate in this perspective. We use our data in a very bright, specific, ruled type of frame. “

He added that in many cases cameras throughout the country are useful. “After the crime, we go and investigate,” he said. “But we want to prevent it. That is why we use these AI and machinery models to try to give us early warning indicators. Then we go to court orders or calls to focus on the specific indicator we saw. “

Al Kuwait also gave insight into cybersecurity in the country. “At least every day we have over 200,000 attacks,” he said. “This includes social engineering and phishing.”

“We use the New Generation Security Operation Center, which is the AI-Eme center, which allows you to automatically stop over 90 percent of these attacks,” he said. “There are patterns and compromise indicators. These attacks even have “behavior” that you can detect early, which we call an early warning system. “

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