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DUBAI — Dubai Police have intensified their crackdown on “organised begging” and vendors after a special team formed by the CID arrested several beggars and vendors from residential and commercial areas of the emirate.

Published: Tue 9 Oct 2007, 8:51 AM

Updated: Sun 5 Apr 2015, 4:47 AM

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The CID team had nabbed 174 beggars, including 140 men and 34 women, mostly those of Asian nationalities.

During their interrogation, the arrested men and women revealed that they had arrived in Dubai on visit or tourist visas during Ramadan.

Brigadier Abdul Jalil Mehdi, deputy director of Preventive Security Department said that some of the beggars who had arrived on visit visas had their professions mentioned as businessmen in their passports.


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