Dhahi Khalfan Tamim

Dhahi Khalfan Tamim (Arabic: ضاحي خلفان تميم‎; born 1 October 1951) is a Lieutenant General and the current Deputy Chief of Police and General Security.[1] He was chief of the Dubai Police Force until the end of the 2013, which is when Khamis Al-Mazeina (died 2016) took over.[2] He came to international attention while overseeing the investigation of the group suspected of the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

Dhahi Khalfan Tamim
Born (1951-10-01) 1 October 1951
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Police career
DepartmentDubai Police Force
Service yearssince 1970 – present
RankLieutenant General

Biography

Tamim was born in Dubai on 1 October 1951. He attended the Royal Police College in Amman, Jordan in 1970. He worked as a criminal investigator. He was also in charge of receiving and test driving a new electric police vehicle in 2013.[3]

Positions
  • Head of Financial and Administrative Affairs
  • Deputy Chief of Police and General Security (2013 - Present)
  • Chief of Dubai Police (1980)
  • Member of Dubai Executive committee[4]

Controversies

He is known for speaking his mind and beyond. In 2017, he made some comments about different nationalities/races which could contravene Dubai's law and could land him in hot water. [5]

In 2010, Pravda online accused the UAE of adopting " policies against Jews"[6] when, on 1 March of that year, Tamim allegedly said that "anyone who looks or sounds like a citizen of Israel will be blocked from entering the country, even if a suspected individual produces a passport of a different state". Pravda responded by asking the rhetorical question: "Will Emirates liken itself to the Third Reich and use rulers and protractors to measure the shape of the nose, earlaps and the skull structure? If it does, the UAE will lose all of its friends in the West".[7][8]

He has received criticism for stating that he would alert Israeli authorities if he learned of a planned terrorist attack on their soil.[9] Furthermore, in July 2013, he received criticism for contesting the notion that Israel was the enemy of Arabs by declaring that the Muslim Brotherhood pose a significantly more substantial threat.[10]

He is a major critic of Qatar's support of the Muslim Brotherhood, and in April 2014, stated that “Qatar should not be ‘a safe haven’ to the so-called ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood". Additionally, he noted that the UAE should 'reclaim' Qatar.[11] This caused already-strained relations between Emirates and Qatar to further deteriorate. He also launched a verbal attack against Kuwait in March 2014, accusing Kuwait of "destroying Iraq".[12]

In 2015, he was publicly rebuked by Emirati minister of foreign affairs Abdullah bin Zayed on Twitter as a result of expressing support for former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh. He also criticised the tactics employed by coalition forces during the 2015 intervention in Yemen.[13]

In February 2017, he praised United States President Donald Trump's ban on individuals from seven Muslim-majority countries.[14]

In October 2017, Dhahi Khalfan wrote about the Qatar diplomatic crisis on Twitter in Arabic; "If the World Cup leaves Qatar, Qatar’s crisis will be over … because the crisis is created to get away from it". According to observers, the message appeared to imply that the blockade was enacted due to Qatar hosting the world's biggest football event.[15] In reaction to media coverage of his tweet, Dhahi Khalfan tweeted; “I said Qatar is faking a crisis and claims it’s besieged so it could get away from the burdens of building expensive sports facilities for the World Cup”[16] UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said Dhahi Khalfan had been misunderstood in media coverage. In response, Gargash clarified that Qatar's hosting of World Cup 2022 "should include a repudiation of policies supporting extremism & terrorism."[17]

After hundreds of civilians were killed in the November 2017 Sinai mosque attack by ISIL, he blamed the attack on Qatari news network Al Jazeera and suggested that Egypt should "bomb" the network in retaliation.[18]

On April 3, 2018 he tweeted "Why Indians are disciplined? While sedition, criminality and smuggling in the Pakistani community are rampant" he also mentioned that the Pakistanis pose a serious threat to the Gulf communities because they bring drugs to their countries and that the Indians are disciplined than the Pakistanis. His comments came after Dubai authorities arrested gang of Pakistanis involved in smuggling drugs. He has also made comments like this before. [19]

See also

References
  1. "Deputy Chief of Police and General Security".
  2. http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/khamis-mattar-al-mazeina-named-new-dubai-police-chief-1.1258898
  3. http://www.emirates247.com/news/emirates/dubai-police-chief-tests-eco-friendly-car-2013-05-15-1.506457
  4. Dubai police official site Bio
  5. https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2017/1/30/dubai-security-chief-dhahi-tamim-backs-trumps-muslim-ban
  6. See History of the Jews in Germany#Jews under the Nazis (1933–45)
  7. Balmasov, Sergey; Trukhachev, Vadim (4 March 2010). "United Arab Emirates to Follow Third Reich Policies against Jews". Pravda. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  8. "Арабские Эмираты вводят фейс-контроль для израильтян". Pravda (in Russian). 3 March 2010.
  9. Video on YouTube
  10. "قائد شرطة دبي: إسرائيل ليست عدوة العرب،عدونا هم الإخوان المسلمون !". Moroccan News. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  11. "Dubai Police Chief Declares Qatar Part of UAE". frontpagemag.com. 5 April 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  12. "Dubai police chief accuses Kuwait of destroying Iraq". Middle East Monitor. 28 March 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  13. "The war of words between the Emirati Twitterati". al-Araby al-Jadeed. 12 May 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  14. "Dubai's police chief praises Trump's travel ban". Thomson Reuters Zawya. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  15. "How football created the biggest crisis in the Middle East for decades". The Independent. 12 October 2017.
  16. "Outspoken Dubai security chief urges Qatar to give up 2022 World Cup". Times of Israel. 10 October 2017.
  17. "UAE: Qatar must shun 'extremism' to host 2022 World Cup". Reuters. 10 October 2017.
  18. D. Parvaz (25 November 2017). "U.A.E. security official blames TV for Egypt attack, encourages bombing Al Jazeera". Think Progress. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  19. https://www.firstpost.com/world/dubai-police-chief-dhahi-khalfans-stinging-tweets-on-pakistan-more-than-outburst-reveal-islamabads-unsteady-relations-with-saudi-led-gcc-bloc-4418471.html
  1. Dubai Police Official Website
  2. Government of Dubai Official Website
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.