UAE's DVI team joins INTERPOL’s Incident Response Team on identifying victims of Malaysian airline

Abu Dhabi (WAM): A U.A.E. team of Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) specialists left yesterday to Ukraine on request from the INTERPOL to join DVI process following the crash of Malaysia Airline's flight MH 17. All 298 passengers on board were killed in the crash which took place on Thursday in Ukraine. Major General Dr. Ahmed Nasser Al Raisi, Director of Central Operations and Chairman of Victim Affairs Committee, Ministry of Interior, said the Emirati DVI team had immediately answered the call of duty which it received from the INTERPOL in implementation of the U.A.E.'s humanitarian approach which the country's leadership adopts at times of crises and disasters across the world. The INTERPOL's request, he added, underlines the good reputation the U.A.E. and its police and safety forces enjoy in Search and Rescue (SAR) and high professionalism in managing crime scenes. Major Ali Al Muhairi, Director of the Victim Affairs Office and head of the team, said the U.A.E. is the only official Arab member in the INTERPOL DVI group thanks to the leadership's proper care for providing advanced material and technological resources along with continued training for human resources, making the U.A.E. police forces one of the world's most modern and effective security agencies. He added that advanced countries with high forensic expertise the likes of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Australia and Britain are also sending DVI experts. INTERPOL said offers of assistance to deploy additional DVI experts had currently been received from 13 INTERPOL member countries. Member countries which lost citizens in the MH 17 crash will also be requested to gather and send ante-mortem data to the INTERPOL’s Command and Coordination Centre (CCC) in order for the victims to be identified as quickly as possible in order for them to be returned to their families. – Emirates News Agency, WAM – Read more: http://www.wam.ae/en/news/emirates/1395268069789.html