Dubai Police General Command has managed to reveal the identity of the perpetrator in the case of the rape of an Arab woman who had been registered against an unknown, eight years after the occurrence of her, thanks to advances in DNA technology.
The Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, Major General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, noted the great role that the General Administration of Criminal Evidence and Criminology plays in revealing the ambiguity of the crimes committed by documented scientific evidence and evidence, and its experts specialized in scientific and practical competence in the various disciplines of criminal science, stressing that the General Department of Criminal Evidence Criminology has the latest scientific laboratories and technical devices in crime analysis and detection.
For his part, Assistant Commander-in-Chief for Criminal Investigation Affairs, Major General Khaleel Ibrahim Al-Mansoori said, It is not the first time that an unknown case has been transformed into information after years, thanks to the great professionalism enjoyed by criminal investigation men and forensic experts in the Dubai Police General Command, All files of unknown cases, which do not constitute a large proportion of the general total in Dubai, remain open, and the accused or suspect is pursued until he or she is proven to be involved in the case.
He explained that despite the fact that about eight years have passed since the crime occurred, but that the Dubai police did not finish the case or stop searching for the accused, pointing out that after the crime was committed the defendant was not identified due to the lack of sufficient evidence to identify him, but he left behind a biological evidence At the crime scene, samples were preserved until something is found in the case.
In the details of the case, the head of the Biological and Nuclear DNA Department in the General Department of Criminal Evidence and Criminology, Major Dr. Rashid Al Ghaferi, said that a report was received by the Dubai Police, stating that an Arab woman had been raped by an unknown person in the jurisdiction of the Raffa Police Center about eight years ago, and after The investigation and investigation were not recognized because there was not enough evidence, so the report was registered against an unknown, but the Dubai police did not lose sight of the case during those years, and with the progress of the techniques used in DNA tests, forensic experts were able to identify the perpetrator through his brother who was He has a precedent Remote.
Through the use of DNA techniques and further examinations, the Dubai Police were able to identify the perpetrator, but the surprise was that the perpetrator had died when the Dubai Police was able to reveal his identity.