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DUBAI - Dubai is to have security cameras "everywhere" following the assassination of a top Hamas commander in January that was blamed on Israel's Mossad spy agency, the emirate's police chief has said.



Dubai currently has 25,000 security cameras, but "surveillance needs to be ramped up to meet the growing requirements of an expanding city," Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim was quoted as saying in UAE daily the National on Sunday.



The emirate plans to spend 500 million dirhams t($136 million) his year on security technology this year.



"We need to work according to a well-studied strategic plan and not only react to events as they come along... We will have cameras everywhere," Tamim said.



Hamas commander Mahmud al-Mabhuh was killed at a luxury hotel in the emirate, and Tamim said police were able to track down the suspected killers with the help of security cameras.

"With the al-Mabhuh murder we were able to play back time through the footage captured by cameras," Tamim said. He added that police analysed 1,700 hours of images and "were able to pull the strings together and identify the suspects".



Tamim said residents of Dubai need not worry about privacy as cameras are installed everywhere.





“The big number of cameras does not alter the privacy of the city’s residents and visitors,” he told the National. “To intrude on people’s privacy is not allowed by law and is not acceptable by our religion and tradition, so nobody in Dubai need feel scared about their privacy.”