Dubai Police - 2025 Customer Recognition Awards: Community Uplift

[SAS_Innovate]

Dubai Police

Contact: Saif Al Awar

Country:  UAE

Award Category: Community Uplift

Tell how you've used SAS to have a positive impact on your community.

Dubai Police leveraged SAS Analytics to enhance public safety, improve crime prevention, and optimize resource allocation. Here’s how they made a positive impact on the Dubai community:

Predictive Policing: Using SAS Analytics, Dubai Police could see dashboards with information from across all crime systems and data and take the right decisions to prevent criminal activities, reducing response times and improving safety.

Real-Time Data Analysis: SAS enabled the force to process vast amounts of data from different sources in real-time, allowing for faster and more informed decision-making.

Smart City Integration: By integrating SAS analytics with Dubai’s Smart City initiative, police could efficiently manage emergency response, crowd control, and overall public security.

Through these efforts, Dubai Police significantly enhanced crime prevention, response efficiency, and public safety, reinforcing Dubai’s reputation as one of the safest cities in the world.

What SAS products are you using and how are you using them?

Dubai Police has leveraged several SAS solutions to enhance public safety and operational efficiency. Here are the key SAS products they use and how they apply them:

1. SAS Visual Analytics
Usage: Provides analytics and forecasting for all Dubai Police departments and sub departments with more than 400 dashboards built for Dubai Police.
Any inspection the commander and his assistants do for the departments, they use SAS Visual Analytics to present all the data about the department and sub departments and take the necessary actions and decisions accordingly.
Any foreign delegation of Commanders of Police Departments or Ambassadors or other diplomatic convoy, who visit Dubai Police, they showcase their results and numbers on dashboards built on SAS Visual Analytics
Impact: Enables law enforcement to make data-driven decisions quickly. World Class showcase of Dubai Police internationally.
2. SAS Event Stream Processing
Usage: Helps analyze vast amounts of structured and unstructured data, in real time to take immediate decisions and actions for all departments in Dubai Police.
Impact: Improves situational awareness and crime detection and real time decision making.
3. SAS Data Management
Usage: Integrates data from multiple sources (police records, IoT sensors, surveillance) into a centralized platform.
Impact: Enhances data accuracy and ensures consistency for better decision-making.

By integrating these SAS solutions, Dubai Police has enhanced public safety, improved operational efficiency, and reinforced Dubai’s position as a global leader in smart policing.

What was your most surprising discovery about your work?

In the race to become leaders in data-driven decision-making, organizations must prioritize not only the accuracy of their data but also the quality of its presentation. Dashboards play a pivotal role in shaping decision-making outcomes, and ensuring their reliability and impact is critical. The surprising discovery of my work was how I saw the Commanders' growing needs for scalable quality control mechanisms while aligning with organizational goals of precision, efficiency, and innovation.

It is really surprising how SAS solutions can ease the complexities of dashboard evaluation and foster a culture of data-driven excellence. This synergy ensures my work is driving towards actionable strategies and inspiration to maintain and excel Dubai Police's data maturity.