Diplomat's son gets jail for attacking Dubai Police

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The driver also insulted the two officers and a police lieutenant.- Alamy Image
The driver also insulted the two officers and a police lieutenant.- Alamy Image

He threatened that if he entered the station for one minute, he would 'discipline' them.

By Marie Nammour

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Published: Mon 22 Oct 2018, 4:00 PM

Last updated: Sat 1 Dec 2018, 8:30 AM

A man was sentenced to three months in jail for resisting police officers during arrest, after he was spotted driving recklessly. He will be deported after serving the jail term.
Court documents show that on May 2, the 30-year-old man, the son of a diplomat, was stopped by police officers after he was seen driving recklessly and without a registration plate number.
However, he would not heed the two police officers' instructions and would not let them handcuff him. He verbally abused them and threatened to get them fired.
At the Court of First Instance, he faced charges of assaulting on-duty police officers, and verbally abusing and threatening those officers.
The incident was reported to Al Barsha police station.
A police officer said during investigation he was on patrol duty with a colleague when they spotted a car being driven fast and without a plate number. "At a distance, the driver pulled over. He showed us a driving licence that was not clear and would not show an ID, claiming to us he was a diplomat."
The officer recounted to the investigating prosecutor how they had to restrain the reckless driver after he tried to punch him.
"He then threatened that he would get us fired. He said he would not stay one minute at the police station and that if he went there he would later go out and would surely know how to get to us," the officer told the prosecutor.
The driver also insulted the two officers and a police lieutenant.
A police sergeant, who was on that patrol on the incident day, corroborated the other officer's statement adding that the defendant's breath smelled like alcohol. A police lieutenant said he was on another patrol car when he spotted his colleagues' on the road. "The defendant yelled at me. He claimed he was relative to a diplomat and then verbally abused us. We took him into custody."  
The trial continues on November 5.
mary@khaleejtimes.com


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