Dubai Aims To Have 25% Of Force Made Up Of Robots & No Human Employees By 2030

The Dubai Police Force deployed its first robot police as the first step in its ambitious artificial intelligence target. The force aims for its offices to be made up of 25 percent robots by 2030. As more robocops join the force, within 13 years, it also aims to have no human employees.

The robot police are manufactured by PAL Robotics, a company in Spain. The robocop, or REEM, it makes has a body made of white, black, and green plastic armor. It comes with a touch screen interface located on the 5’ 6” robot’s midsection, Engadget reports.

PAL Robotics showed the robot police’s capabilities in 2016 at the GITEX, a yearly electronics show hosted by Dubai. The integrated tablet of the robocop allows the public to report crimes which, in turn, submits paperwork. It also accepts penalties for traffic violations, according to Brigadier Khalid Nasserl Al Razouqui, general director of the Smart Services Department of the Dubai Police.

Brigadier General Abdullah Bin Sultan, director of the Dubai Police’s Future Shaping Centre, announced the deployment of the first robot police in May at a presentation during the 11 Best Police Practices Forum in the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. By having a security system of the future to address future crimes, Dubai hopes that by 2025, it would be one of the five best global cities on security level.

Bin Sultan adds that by 2030, all police buildings in Dubai would generate its own power and the UAE would build a DNA data bank. The data bank is expected to result in the city having no unknown or mysterious crimes with the help of robot police officers, Gulf News reports.

Al Razouqui says the robot police would initially be assigned to shopping centers and tourist destinations. The next assignment for the Robocop is to act as a receptionist at the Dubai police station, New Atlas reports.