Dubai Police to use Google Glass to catch traffic violators

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Dubai Police to use Google Glass to catch traffic violators. Dubai Police is now testing the use of Google Glass for traffic officers. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00Policemen in Dubai may soon be wearing trendy looking glasses, and it's not because they

00:14want to look cool, but rather to be more efficient in their job.

00:18Dubai Police has been developing new applications to use Google Glass in their day-to-day work.

00:23Currently we have done the application that will work on those glasses.

00:29So once it's going to be launched, it's going to be used for two things.

00:33One part is the police officer can take pictures of the traffic violation right away from the

00:40Google Glass and upload it to our system, and from there it's going to be issued a traffic

00:45ticket violation to the drivers.

00:48The other part is a kind of analytic tools which the camera itself can read the plate

00:55numbers automatically and check against any wanted cars.

01:00So the officers shouldn't check against his paperwork or checking against his database.

01:05You just look at those plate numbers, if there's any wanted car, it will alert him and it will

01:13send the report right away to our police stations.

01:16Another application is also being developed to allow motorists to report minor vehicular

01:21accidents.

01:22The service will be launched next month.

01:24So we're going to launch a lot of services that we're aiming to provide or to have a

01:29zero visit to our police stations.

01:32So we are pleased that there's going to be a new application, which is the people and

01:37the clients can send us the traffic violations, taking a snapshot of all the pictures of the

01:45And one of the other part is the reporting of any minor accident occurring in Dubai.

01:54So those kind of two services that are going to help a lot from both parties, the clients

02:01and Dubai Police.

02:02Dubai Police said it is continuing to take advantage of new technology to provide much

02:07better services.

02:08Iris Iden-Belieza for Gulf News.

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