Dubai: A receptionist has been jailed for three months for resisting arrest, beating up two policewomen and verbally threatening them as they escorted her to a lock-up.
Officers from Dubai Police’s criminal investigation department stopped the 25-year-old Moroccan receptionist over a criminal complaint filed against her and referred her to a police station to be detained in October. While a policewoman was trying to handcuff the defendant to take her to the lock-up, the 25-year-old became violent and resorted to rowdy behaviour.
On Sunday, the Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the accused of resisting arrest, scuffling and cursing the policewoman.
Presiding judge Mohammad Jamal said the defendant will be deported after serving her jail sentence.
While making the arrest, a duty officer called another police corporal and asked her to assist her colleague in calming down the defendant so she could be taken to the lock-up, records said.
While the policewomen tried to handcuff the accused, she resisted ferociously and injured one of them using the handcuffs. She also threatened them verbally.
The 25-year-old pleaded not guilty and denied assaulting the two policewomen or injuring them while resisting arrest.
“I know an influential person in Abu Dhabi and you will see what I will do to you,” she said as she resisted arrest.
A policewoman said the defendant threw herself down on the floor and turned physically violent when they tried to handcuff her.
“She was brought to the police station after the CID arrested her. She resisted arrest and refused to be handcuffed and to be taken into the lock-up. While resisting arrest, she beat the corporal and injured her head. Finally we managed to restrain her and handcuff her … she told us that she knows someone influential in Abu Dhabi and she threatened us,” the police corporal told prosecutors.
Sunday’s ruling remains subject to appeal within 15 days.
