Cop smuggled drugs to Dubai detainees?

An Emirati policeman allegedly accepted four tramadol tablets as bribe to allow smuggling of the drug into the detention centre, the Dubai Courts was told.

According to the records, the sergeant asked other colleagues that they can go home in order to take tramadol tablets into the centre. BO, 27, Emirati, is also accused of taking drugs.

The records show that on the night of the crime, the sergeant asked his colleague to go home as the latter was tired after transporting a detainee to Rashid Hospital for the treatment.

“I was on duty with BO. After I returned from the hospital transporting a detainee for the treatment, BO told me that I can go home. This was not the first time that he had asked me to go home; a week ago he did the same at around 5am, an hour before finishing my duty,” Corporal KS, told investigators.

Corporal MA also testified that BO tried to send the policeman home but the latter refused because the order should come to him from his direct senior in another police station.

“BO took the warden’s key from the policeman telling him that he is in charge of the detention and is leaving as he has to drive long distance to reach home. The policeman told him that there is no one else to help him,” said the corporal who also assured that this was not the first time BO asked his colleague to go home.

BO’s colleagues know that one of the detainees MS, 26, was his school friend.

“BO asked for the ambulance a couple of times in an attempt to send his friend to the hospital. The detainee claimed that he has a heart problem and needs to see the doctor. Every time emergency staff came and left police station without taking the detainee along with them because they said that he is not facing any heart problem,” the corporal testified before the court.

During a routine inspection of the detention centre, seniors noticed that the condition of two detainees MS and AA was abnormal. Their tests were taken which proved positive.

Sergeant BO was suspected of supplying the two detainees with the drugs. BO’s urine test also proved positive to tramadol.

Both MS and AA are jobless Emiratis and accused of offering bribe to a public servant.

The sergeant and MS denied the bribery charges but admitted taking tramadol.

The third accused AA denied any relation to the bribery issue and also denied taking drugs.

The court will reconvene on September 7.

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