Saudi-made Smart Helmet Enhances Security of Vital Facilities at Cityscape Global 2024

The event, organized by the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing, has taken place from November 11 to 14 at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center in Malham - SPA
The event, organized by the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing, has taken place from November 11 to 14 at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center in Malham - SPA
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Saudi-made Smart Helmet Enhances Security of Vital Facilities at Cityscape Global 2024

The event, organized by the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing, has taken place from November 11 to 14 at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center in Malham - SPA
The event, organized by the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing, has taken place from November 11 to 14 at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center in Malham - SPA

The Saudi Ministry of Interior, represented by the Facilities Security Forces, revealed a smart helmet designed to enhance the security of vital facilities in the Kingdom at the Cityscape Global exhibition.

The event, organized by the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing, has taken place from November 11 to 14 at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center in Malham, north of Riyadh, under the theme “The Future of Living.”
The ministry’s participation in the exhibition aims to highlight the advancements it has achieved under the Saudi Vision 2030, SPA reported.

These developments include the integration of artificial intelligence technologies into the homeland security system, demonstrating capabilities in maintaining security, securing borders, managing crises and disasters, enhancing field operations, and safeguarding environmental security and sustainability in line with the objectives of the Saudi Vision 2030.



Stolen Shoe Mystery Solved at Japanese Kindergarten When Security Camera Catches Weasel in the Act

This image made from security camera video released by Kasuya Police shows a weasel with a shoe at a kindergarten in Koga, Fukuoka prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 11, 2024. (Kasuya Police via AP)
This image made from security camera video released by Kasuya Police shows a weasel with a shoe at a kindergarten in Koga, Fukuoka prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 11, 2024. (Kasuya Police via AP)
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Stolen Shoe Mystery Solved at Japanese Kindergarten When Security Camera Catches Weasel in the Act

This image made from security camera video released by Kasuya Police shows a weasel with a shoe at a kindergarten in Koga, Fukuoka prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 11, 2024. (Kasuya Police via AP)
This image made from security camera video released by Kasuya Police shows a weasel with a shoe at a kindergarten in Koga, Fukuoka prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 11, 2024. (Kasuya Police via AP)

Police thought a shoe thief was on the loose at a kindergarten in southwestern Japan, until a security camera caught the furry culprit in action.

A weasel with a tiny shoe in its mouth was spotted on the video footage after police installed three cameras in the school in the prefecture of Fukuoka.

“It’s great it turned out not to be a human being,” Deputy Police Chief Hiroaki Inada told The Associated Press Sunday. Teachers and parents had feared it could be a disturbed person with a shoe fetish.

Japanese customarily take their shoes off before entering homes. The vanished shoes were all slip-ons the children wore indoors, stored in cubbyholes near the door.

Weasels are known to stash items and people who keep weasels as pets give them toys so they can hide them.

The weasel scattered shoes around and took 15 of them before police were called. Six more were taken the following day. The weasel returned Nov. 11 to steal one more shoe. The camera footage of that theft was seen the next day.

The shoe-loving weasel only took the white indoor shoes made of canvas, likely because they’re light to carry.

“We were so relieved,” Gosho Kodomo-en kindergarten director Yoshihide Saito told Japanese broadcaster RKB Mainichi Broadcasting.

The children got a good laugh when they saw the weasel in the video.

Although the stolen shoes were never found, the remaining shoes are now safe at the kindergarten with nets installed over the cubbyholes.

The weasel, which is believed to be wild, is still on the loose.