Dubai: Special teams from Dubai Police's Human Rights Department started visiting labour accommodation to inspect and check their compatibility with standards and measures approved by Dubai Municipality.
Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, Chief of Dubai Police, issued instructions to form teams that consist of officers and members from the human rights department. The teams will be responsible for inspection of all labour accommodation, making sure of the necessary health conditions and listening to accommodation-related suggestions and complaints from labourers.
The instructions came to develop and improve general safety standards and environmental safety at labour accommodation in Dubai.
The teams started their work yesterday by visiting labour accommodations in Al Ghusais, Al Qouz Industrial and Jebel Ali areas.
The move comes as part of Lieutenant General Dahi's keenness to provide suitable services for labourers.
The human rights department also coordinated with Dubai Municipality to get some maps which specify labour accommodation and the list of standards and measures which must be available at labour accommodation approved by Dubai Municipality.
Every team has been provided with a checklist that includes the list of places and the points that need to be checked and revised as well as the requirements of the Permanent Committee for Labour Affairs in Dubai (PCLAD).
PCLAD in cooperation with Dubai Municipality instructed companies that violate safety requirements at labourer accommodation to rectify the situation.
Brigadier Mohammad Al Merri, Director General of Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department (DNRD) and head of the committee, said 17 inspectors from the committee visited 22 labour accommodation in Al Qouz, Jebel Ali and Sonapur to check on the labourers' situations.
Abdullah Bin Suloom, Director of the Dubai Inspection Department at the Ministry of Labour and deputy director of the committee, told Gulf News that inspectors found minor offences during their visits.
