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Next time you pass through Dubai's Passport Control at the airport, remember, there's no escape for fake documents.
"If the passport is fake, the person who is holding the fraudulent document is handed over to the authorities and the minimum punishment is that he cannot enter the UAE again. He will be blacklisted. In case he is leaving the country, he will be stopped and handed over to the Police," said Aqil Ahmad Alnajjar, Director of the Document Examination Center.
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Steps to detect fake passports 1. The document is first checked by one of the 1,700 first-line officers who are deployed by the GDRFA across the counters. The machine used by them, known as 'retro-check', has three functions - ultraviolet light, transmitted light and magnifier. These functions are good enough to help the first-line officers detect at least 70% of the counterfeit passports. 2. If the first-line officers are in doubt, the document is transferred to a team of 18 second-line officers. About 3 to 4% of the passports doubted by the first-line officers are found to be counterfeit by the second-line officers, said Alnajjar. 3. The document is then checked by examiners at the main centre, located at Dubai airport's Terminal 1. The examiners look at various attributes such as the background, printing technique, among others. |
Number of forged documents detected by GDRFA January to December 2016 Fake passports: 657 Altered passports: 21 Fraud impersonation cases: 391 Total: 1,069 |
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