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Receiving a phone call
from the police out of the blue may be disconcerting. However, Dubai is
getting officers to call members of the public who are unhappy to establish the
reasons why, according to AP. Dubai wants to move up the rankings of the
world’s happiest cities and back into the top 10 by 2021. The city launched an
online survey earlier in October aimed at finding out what the public does and
doesn’t like.
Dubai
police sent text messages to residents in the city. There was just one question
in Arabic and English: ‘Are you happy in Dubai?’
RT report continues:
Law
enforcers reported that 84 percent said they were happy, 6 percent said they
were indifferent, while 10 percent were unhappy. The government said they
received around 200,000 responses in just the first day, but refused to say how
many text messages they sent out.
However,
Dubai’s police chief, Major General Khamis Mattar Al-Mazeina, says they will
now go one step further, by randomly calling those who stated they were unhappy
with the aim of trying to find out why.
“If
the matter is under our jurisdiction, we will help them with it, but if it has
to do with another government entity we will forward the issue to the concerned
department,” he said, as cited by AP. But he said police would be unable to “try
and solve personal issues.”
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