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    152,000 deportees blocked from entry-United Arab Emirates

    http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Immigrat ... 32022.html

    I live in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. This country borders on Oman, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Most of the border with Saudi is just a line on a map. I don't even think there is a fence. The border with Oman has been beefed up lately. Until 2 months ago, one could travel to and from Oman without a passport, there was no border check whatsoever. They started beefing things up here because of illegal aliens from India and Sri Lanka would come into the UAE to work from Oman. Now there are border gates, passport/visa checks.

    Immigration & Visas
    Published: 13/06/2007 12:00 AM (UAE)

    Ahmed Kutty/Gulf News
    Shaikh Saif honours a police officer in Abu Dhabi.

    152,000 deportees blocked from entry
    By Samir Salama, Bureau Chief

    Abu Dhabi: The iris recognition system installed at checkpoints has blocked 152,000 deportees from entering illegally in the last four-and-a-half years, an official said yesterday.

    "These people attempted to return to the country on forged documents," Brigadier Ahmad Nasser Al Raisi, Director of the Central Operations at the Abu Dhabi Police, told Gulf News yesterday.

    He was speaking after Lieutenant General Shaikh Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Interior, decorated police officers for their contribution to the implementation of the Abu Dhabi Police's strategic development plan.

    The nationwide network uses a single-eye H-100 camera supplied by the UK-based company IrisGuard.

    It was introduced in 2003 and covers 22 enrolment centres and 35 land, sea and air border points across the UAE.

    The system, which was especially developed for the UAE, has 1.1 million iris data stored and has performed 22 million iris searches for 11 million persons.

    Brigadier Al Raisi said there are plans to further refine the network as dual-eyed cameras are in the manufacturing stages and will be installed when ready.

    Iris scans take advantage of random variations in the visible features of the iris, the coloured ring around the pupil.

    After an offender has his iris scanned once, a unique file is placed in the database. Subsequently, the offender simply looks at a suitably equipped camera that scans and checks the iris in little more than one second.

    On whether the system has ever been fooled, Brigadier Al Raisi said iris scans are more accurate than any other computerised means of identifying people, such as fingerprint, face or voice recognition.

    "The iris scan has a near zero per cent for false acceptance rate and less than one per cent false rejection rate."

    Foreigners banned from the UAE, he said, have tried to fool the system by using medical eye drops before being scanned, "but we adopted new security methods to detect if an iris has been dilated with an eye drop before scanning".

    ADVICE
    Don't compromise on security, urges Saif

    Lieutenant General Shaikh Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Interior, yesterday decorated police officers for their contribution to implementing the strategic development plan 2003-2007.

    Shaikh Saif called upon the officers not to compromise on matters related to security, safety and quality service to the public while discharging their responsibilities.
    Absconders

    Absconding workers account for 70 per cent or 250,000 out of 350,000 illegal workers in the country, a senior official said yesterday.

    Obaid Rashid Al Zahmi, assistant undersecretary of the Labour Ministry, said 157,000 workers have been reported to the ministry as absconding from the beginning of 2004 up until yesterday.

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    Another country putting technology to use!! Why is our government sooooo stupid in not wanting to put this type of technology in place? We already have is, as one company I worked for used palm scanners for admission into some areas. I wish they'd stop dragging their feet and got off thier sorry butts and get things done!!

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    What this country doesn't need is bio scanning of any type. If we can put a man on the moon, we can figure out a way to create a tamper-proof ID card, not some evil bio scan that will eventually morf into a device that makes money obsolete and causes our freedom and privacy to disappear.
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