(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) A traffic police officer stood trial on Sunday on the charges of soliciting Dh2,000 in bribe from an undercover police informant in return for writing a traffic accident police report without actually inspecting the vehicle on the accident scene.
Thirty-year-old Emirati officer S.A. of Al Muraqqabat traffic police patrol section is accused of soliciting Dh2,000 and forging an accident report and then using it by giving it to the informant to unlawfully make use of it for the insurance claim.
S.A. allegedly wrote a report saying that the informant's car had been slightly damaged in the front after it hit the pavement.
Another Emirati police officer, H.H., 24, is accused of aiding and abetting S.A. in committing the forgery and using the forged document.
H.H. is also facing a charge of failing to report the bribery.
The incident, subject of the case, allegedly happened on October 21 last year.
A police officer of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said during the public prosecution investigation that they were tipped off by an informant that S.A. had been writing traffic accident reports without actually inspecting the accident scenes.
"We learnt he had been doing that for sums he would collect from individuals who were at fault and caused the accidents. After verifying that information, we coordinated with our informant to arrest S.A. red-handed," the officer said.
The informant phoned S.A. and told him that he had met with a traffic accident and requested a police report so that he could have his car repaired under the insurance cover. S.A. agreed to issue him a report for Dh2,000 in return, the witness told the prosecutor.
A warrant was then issued by the Public Prosecution to record the conversation that went on between the informant and S.A..
The CID officers arrested S.A. and H.H. from Port Saeed in Al Muraqqabat after the former collected Dh2,000 from the police informant.
The witness said that S.A. got tense when his patrol car was raided by the CID officers. H.H., who was then in the same patrol car, denied having seen S.A. receiving the money. "H.H. confessed that S.A. would write traffic accidents reports without visiting the scenes and inspecting the cars involved, which was an illegal procedure."
The witness also said that S.A. issued the informant a traffic fine ticket as a cover up that he was following the legal procedures.
"We searched the informant and found the accident report and the traffic ticket S.A. had just issued him".
Both S.A. and H.H. were then referred to the General Directorate of Criminal Investigation.
The case has been adjourned to March 22.
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