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Staged suicides and suspicious fires: How Dubai Police solve crimes

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“Staged suicides and suspicious fires: How Dubai Police solve crimes”

Dubai Police have revealed how forensic engineering techniques help solve murder cases, identify victims and investigate suspicious fatal accidents. Evidence such as a broken shower rail, fuel traces beneath a burnt vehicle and facial reconstruction has helped investigators solve murders. Lieutenant Colonel Dr Engineer Mohammad Ali Al Qasim, head of the Forensic Engineering Section at Dubai Police’s General Department of Forensic Science and Criminology, shared insights from several…

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