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00:00Good afternoon and welcome to the next edition of Caught in Crime with our Chief Crime Reporter

00:13Ali and he is going to tell us on how his week has been and which are the top stories

00:19that's taken up his time and which you can also find on golfgears.com.

00:27If you are a driver and you didn't commit traffic fines since February 6th, then you

00:32will have good news.

00:33There will be a 50% discount, you will be eligible for the discount.

00:38It's part of the Dubai Police Initiative to encourage drivers to follow the traffic laws

00:44and to drive safely, to reduce the traffic fines and accidents.

00:48So on August, now drivers will be eligible for 50% discount on their accumulated traffic

00:55fines.

00:56It's quite a helpful initiative because I know that when you, especially when you go

01:00to renew your registration, it can come as a bit of a shock, the massive sum of money

01:05that you might have accumulated with fines.

01:07Yes, the good thing with Dubai Police, you can renew your driving license now without

01:11even paying the traffic fines in Dubai.

01:14So you can renew it, you can benefit from the initiative.

01:18Today, head of Federal Traffic Council, Major General Zafin, he said that after one year,

01:27they will check the results of the initiative.

01:29If it's successful, then it will be a recommendation that will be going to the Interior Ministry

01:37to approve it on a federal level.

01:39So the initiative might be actually for all UAE, not only in Dubai.

01:46So this suggestion will present to the Federal Traffic Council, they're going to discuss

01:50it by February 2020, and it might be for all UAE drivers.

01:56The initiative, until now, after six months, about 425,000 drivers benefited from the initiative,

02:04which is a massive number.

02:07It's about 25% of people who are carrying Dubai driving license.

02:11So that shows a lot of interest from drivers to get the discount traffic fines.

02:17And actually, it's building a culture for drivers to just like to follow the traffic laws,

02:23not to commit to traffic fines, even if there is no initiative.

02:28Drivers should follow traffic laws.

02:29Yes, absolutely.

02:30You have to drive safe.

02:31And that is something Dubai Police has said repeatedly.

02:35And we hope to see this as a nationwide initiative.

02:38So Dubai starts off as a test case.

02:40Yeah, yeah.

02:41And then looking at how it's done over the past six months, it sounds like really successful.

02:46Yes.

02:47And according to Dubai Police's stats, number of deaths reduced by 15%, actually, compared

02:55to 2018.

02:57And the funny thing is, you remember the Omani bus?

03:02Yes, the accident.

03:03Yes, that killed 17 people.

03:05I mean, if we just like the Major General Zafin, he said, if we just like accept this

03:10accidents, the reduction in casualties on the roads, it can be reached 77%, not 15%.

03:18But it's only this exceptional accidents that has happened.

03:21So all the results from number of casualties, injuries, death, it's reduced since the initiative

03:29was launched by Dubai Police on February this year.

03:32That's excellent news.

03:33And let's all who drive, try and make it a safer place to drive.

03:37Yeah.

03:38And the next story is about WhatsApp blackmail.

03:42Yeah, it was a story in Dubai courts recently this week.

03:47A woman received death threats on her WhatsApp from a friend.

03:55He basically borrowed 2,500 dirhams from her, and he was delaying of returning the

04:04money back.

04:05So then he started to send her death threat messages on WhatsApp, asking her not to report

04:12it to the police and stop asking for the money.

04:14So what she did, she just like went to Dubai Police, and she launched a case against him.

04:20And he is now prosecuted for issuing death threats online.

04:26Yes.

04:27It's death threats online.

04:28Yes, because UAE takes cyber law, excuse me, and cyber crime very seriously, and this is

04:34not acceptable.

04:35Yes.

04:36And this is, I think, a good test case to also advise people that if you see yourselves

04:41in trouble or at any point feel that something is going wrong, approach the authorities.

04:46Yeah.

04:47They will do their best.

04:48This case is such a good example that even if you threaten somebody on social media,

04:54online, WhatsApp, or different kind of social media platforms, you can be prosecuted.

04:58Yes, you will be held accountable.

05:00Yes, yeah, because it's a strong evidence.

05:03She presented her phone to the prosecution, and they took a copy from the conversation

05:07between her and the guy, and that was a good evidence and enough evidence.

05:13And that was submissive in the court of law.

05:16Yes, yes.

05:17And the Dubai courts convicted the driver, and he was sentenced actually in courtroom

05:23of issuing death threats online.

05:25Okay.

05:26Yeah.

05:27And the third case is actually an old story that keeps happening and continues to surprise

05:33and shock us.

05:34Yeah.

05:35Parents forgetting their children in cars.

05:36Yes, I know, but yeah, it is still shocking that we're living in, and they are still not

05:43aware of the dangers of leaving a child unattended.

05:46Recently, there was an incident in Sharjah, actually, it's happened.

05:51Some people called police saying that there is a kid who was trapped inside his car, inside

05:56a car.

05:57So the police, they couldn't manage to know who was his parents, so they acted quickly

06:03and they rescued the boy.

06:05Thanks God the boy was safe, and he wasn't in good health, but that incident, it's actually

06:12raised a huge concern on the parents who are leaving their children inside their cars,

06:18little children.

06:19Children, they are not aware of the environment around them.

06:23They don't know how to open the door and this kind of stuff.

06:25So they find themselves locked inside a car in this hot weather.

06:28It is really a huge issue.

06:31Yes, it's unsafe practice.

06:33Yes, that police and different government departments in the UAE are warning people

06:38from leaving children inside cars because it can lead to death, suffocation.

06:43Temperatures inside the car in this hot weather will be massive and nobody can bear it and

06:50handle it.

06:51Yes, I mean adults find it difficult, so imagine young children, and these actually have very

06:55strong physiological impact on the child and which can impact their organs, etc., which

07:01can lead to fatalities.

07:04So we need to be careful, and as the authorities keep saying, forget your children in the car.

07:11Yes, Sharjah police, they contacted the parents later and they discovered that the parents

07:16actually forgotten their child inside the car after they left.

07:20So they parked the car and left.

07:22So I mean...

07:23Which is really bizarre, actually.

07:25It is really weird because parents, everybody, you guys need to check the car after you leave

07:33the car in this hot weather.

07:37So always check the cars, always check, look after your children because you never know

07:43when such an incident can happen to you.

07:46Yes, absolutely.

07:47Yeah.

07:48So on that cautionary note, we end today's edition of Court and Crime, but we will have

07:53more stories for you next week as Ali comes back for his next edition.

07:57Thank you very much for joining us.

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