According to Dahi Halfan, the head of the Dubai police, he turned to the leadership of the GCC countries with a proposal to create an organization similar to Interpol, since, in his opinion, the need for closer security cooperation has long been overdue.
"Any organization that will give more publicity and will have public recognition, such as Interpol, is a positive solution to the issue, especially in light of what is happening now in and around the region after the Arab uprisings, which we witnessed this year "," said Theodor Karasik, director of the research department of the Institute for Military Analysis of the Middle East and the GCC countries. “From the point of view of time, Ramadan has come to an end, and we expect a tense, in the political sense, autumn, therefore, the sooner such an organization is created, the better.” Such an agency, organization or committee will most likely be created on the basis of ongoing cooperation between security organizations of the GCC countries. “Today, a private network for identifying and tracking certain individuals when they arrive in the territory of the GCC countries already exists and is working successfully. This was well demonstrated earlier, for example, in 2004, when three intelligence agents were arrested in Doha. with the assassination of a Chechen separatist leader, "continues Karasik.
It should be noted that some GCC countries have strengthened the control and security regime of their borders in connection with the so-called “Arab spring” and massive large-scale revolts, during which the rulers of Tunisia and Egypt were overthrown, and numerous disturbances took place in Bahrain. After these events, in May of Kuwait, the citizens of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan were banned from entering the country, fearing that they could provoke political instability and pose a risk to the country's security. Bahrain's national airline, Gulf Air, temporarily suspended flights to Lebanon, Iran and Iraq in March. And Qatar tightened entry rules for Algerian citizens living in other GCC countries in August due to the neutral attitude of this country towards the revolution in Libya.
