Dubai has a strong message for fraudsters who try to forge passports: “You can try, but beware of GDRFA’s Document Examination Centre, as its whole purpose is to catch you.”
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00:00With millions of passengers travelling through Dubai International Airport every year, passport
00:07control officers are up to the task to spot fake passports.
00:11I'm Ali with Gulf News and we are here at Passport Examination Centre to see how they
00:19do this.
00:20Actually in this centre what we do, we examine passports and other documents that are related
00:29to travelling.
00:31The passport comes to the centre, we examine it, write a report and send the report to
00:39the public prosecution.
00:42This is what we do actually.
00:44So the passport is caught at the border control where the officers are sitting.
00:55So from there it goes to the police station, from the police station it goes to the public
01:01prosecutor, so the public prosecutor does their own interrogation and sends the passport
01:08to our centre.
01:09Here is the technical part, what we do, we receive this passport, we examine it and find
01:15out whether this passport is false or otherwise.
01:20We write a report, a technical report and this report goes back to the public prosecutor
01:25and then from the public prosecutor it goes to the court.
01:30We are doing the same as the Dubai Police Document Examination Centre and at the same
01:36time we do the training, we train the people, the officers who are working at the border
01:42control.
01:43There are so many physical evidences, whenever these evidences are present in the passport,
01:52it means that there is something wrong with this passport.
01:55So we can see these evidences by naked eye, sometimes we use small devices like a magnifier
02:03and for the further examination we have our lab which is fully equipped with robust examination
02:12devices.
02:14And we have a database room, in the database room we have the specimen of all the passports.
02:22So whenever it is needed, for example if we are examining a passport which belongs to
02:27an X country, so we have a genuine passport, so we pull out that one and we compare this
02:32to that one, in order to know the differences between these two passports.
02:37Accordingly we arrive at a conclusion, whether this passport, a suspicious passport is genuine
02:42or is a fake.
02:43The biggest challenge is that the techniques of forging passports are getting more advanced,
02:50so we have to be always very careful, we have to be ahead of these people who are forging
02:55the passports.
02:57The number of the passengers is increasing daily, you know Dubai is a hub, so we have
03:03to be very fast, how to examine the passport as fast as possible, this is a challenge.
03:13This is always His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Rashid tells us, don't let the passengers
03:20wait, you do it as fast as possible.
03:23We are known for this one, as a Dubai airport, we are very fast and we tell the people at
03:30the border control that you should not let the passengers wait more than half a minute.
03:38This is a big challenge, so we always try to improve how to make the examination at
03:46the border control as fast as possible.
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