Today the seven-day visit of the representatives of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) to the State Forensic Examination Committee of Belarus (SFEC) was concluded. The heads of the key expert divisions of the Abu Dhabi Forensic Evidence Department headed by its Director Abdulrahman Muhammad AL Hammadi arrived to adopt the best practices of the Belarusian expert organization.

This visit is the first step on the way to practical implementation of the Memorandum on Cooperation in the field of forensic expert activity signed in July this year.

During the week representatives of the Abu Dhabi Police visited the laboratories for forensic biological and genetic examinations, metallographic analysis and odorology examinations as well as expert examinations of drugs, petroleum products, elemental analysis and molecular-spectral analysis.

The special attention of the guests was attracted by the experience of Belarusian experts in the conduct of the odorology examinations (smell traces of human). Laboratory dogs can identify a specific smell from a sample selected from the scene of millions of other samples. No equivalent of such type of expertise exists in the Abu Dhabi Police. Based on the results of the visit the representatives of the foreign delegation announced about the establishment of the same laboratory in the UAE on the Belarusian model.

The possibilities of identification of hand traces on the scene, as well as their rapid transfer via 3G and checking through fingerprint database were demonstrated to heads of the expert departments of Abu Dhabi by Belarusian experts. At the same time the head of the foreign delegation stressed the importance of integrating units that carry out forensic examinations and are engaged in keeping criminal records in a single agency, because only through such organization of work identifying suspects of committing crimes became possible even at the stage of inspections of the incident scene. The mentioned above arguments allows to avoid the exchange of requests between various law enforcement agencies when in the investigation of crimes counts every minute.

At the SFEC the guests were interested in the technical expertise of the documents as the experience of Belarusian experts for example in establishing the sequence of the intersecting lines of the requisites in the document is unique for colleagues from Abu Dhabi. Such expert tasks in the UAE are not solved. Nor do complex examinations with the use of non-destructive methods of research.

The guests were also surprised at the fact that Belarusian experts often use equipment, software and methods of Belarusian production.

The visit was concluded by the meeting of the Chairman of the SFEC Andrei Shved and the Director of the Abu Dhabi Police Forensic Evidence Department  Abdulrahman Muhammad Al Hammadi. As a result of the meeting it was decided to study the issues of training foreign specialists, to prepare relevant training programs for a period of three to six months.

The Chairman of the State Committee emphasized the importance of strengthening the existing friendly relations with the Abu Dhabi Police and the willingness to share experience with foreign specialists.

In his turn the Director of the Criminalistics Department expressed his intention to train specialists in the field of fire-technical, forensic medical examination and technical expertise of documents on the basis of the Belarusian expert department. For him it is the third visit to the Belarusian capital. For the first time with a familiarization visit Abdulrahman Muhammad Al Hammadi visited the SFEC in February 2014. At today's meeting the head of the foreign delegation said that he was impressed with the result, which the Belarusian experts managed to achieve in such a short period of time and the rapid development of the Belarusian forensic expertise.

The next stage in strengthening cooperation with colleagues from Abu Dhabi will be the visit of Belarusian experts to the UAE which is scheduled for November this year.