Background
Tamim was born in Dubai on 1 October 1951.
Tamim was born in Dubai on 1 October 1951.
He attended the Royal Police College in Amman, Jordan in 1970.
He was chief of the Dubai Police Force until the end of the 2013, which is when Khamis First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Mazeina took over. He came to international attention while overseeing the investigation of the group suspected of the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. He is a criminal investigator.
He was also in-charge of receiving and test driving a new electric police vehicle in 2013.
Head of Financial and Administrative Affairs
Deputy Chief of Dubai Police (1979)
Chief of Dubai Police (1980)
Deputy Chief of Public security
In 2010, Pravda online accused the United Arab Emirates of adopting " policies against Jews" when, in 1 March of that year, Tamim allegedly said that "that anyone who looks or sounds like a citizen of Israel will be blocked from entering the country, even if a suspected individual produces a passport of a different state". Pravda responded by asking the rhetorical question: "Will Emirates liken itself to the Third Reich and use rulers and protractors to measure the shape of the nose, earlaps and the skull structure? If it does, the United Arab Emirates will lose all of its friends in the West".
He has received criticism for stating that he would alert Israeli authorities if he learned of a planned terrorist attack on their soil. Additionally, he noted that the United Arab Emirates should "reclaim" Qatar.
This caused already-strained relations between Emirates and Qatar to further deteriorate.
He also launched a verbal attack against Kuwait in March 2014, claiming that it supported the Muslim Brotherhood, and accused Kuwait of "destroying Iraq". In 2015, he was publicly rebuked by Emirati minister of foreign affairs Abdullah bin Zayed on Twitter as a result of expressing support for former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh. He also criticised the tactics employed by coalition forces during the 2015 intervention in Yemen.
Member of Dubai Executive committee.