Dubai Police General Command revealed the identity of the perpetrator in the case of the rape of an Arab woman who was registered against an unknown, eight years after its occurrence, thanks to advances in DNA technology, and when the security services began the procedures to arrest the perpetrator, it was found that he died before the detection of his crime.
On the details of the case, the head of the Biological and Nuclear DNA Department of the General Department of Criminal Evidence and Criminology, Major Dr. Rashid Al Ghaferi, stated that a communication received by Dubai Police, about eight years ago, indicates that an Arab woman was raped by an unknown person in the jurisdiction of the Raffa Police Center And after research and investigation, the perpetrator was not identified, because there was not enough evidence, so the report was registered against an unknown person, but Dubai Police did not lose sight of the case throughout those years, and with the advancement of the techniques used in DNA tests, forensic experts were able to identify the perpetrator from The path of his brother, who had a former Criminal offense.
Through the use of DNA techniques and further examinations, Dubai Police were able to identify the perpetrator, but the surprise was that the perpetrator had died before revealing his identity.
Al-Ghafri thanked the General Command of Dubai Police for their support and interest in the human cadre, and the potentials in the General Administration of Forensic Evidence and Criminology, for keeping abreast of what is new in all areas and leading to the use of artificial intelligence techniques, which led to the development of the General Administration of Forensic Evidence and its access to the world.
The Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, Major General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, valued the great role that the General Department 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 criminal sciences specializations, 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, the Assistant Commander-in-Chief for Criminal Investigation Affairs, Major General Khaleel Ibrahim Al-Mansoori, said that it is not the first time that an unknown case has turned into information after years have passed, thanks to the professionalism enjoyed by the criminal investigation men and forensic experts at the Dubai Police General Command, He continued that all files of unknown cases, which do not constitute a large percentage of the general total in Dubai, remain open, and that the accused or suspect is pursued until he or she is proven to be involved in the case.
He stressed the Dubai police keenness to return the rights to their owners, and bring the accused to justice to take the punishment they deserve, pointing out that the Dubai Police has an accurate evaluation mechanism that specializes in reviewing the stages of cases with all their details, and this is done through an electronic criminal record, which tracks the total of criminal reports and re-analyzes , Adding that it is impossible to close the file of any case without identifying the perpetrators and taking legal measures against them, even after years have passed, which was translated on the ground by revealing the perpetrators of a number of crimes after years of their occurrence.
Al-Mansoori explained that despite the passage of nearly eight years since the crime occurred, Dubai Police did not end 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 His successor was a biological evidence at the crime scene, and accordingly he was removed from the crime scene and preserved samples until something new in the case has arisen.
Dubai Police seized biological evidence that left it
The perpetrator is his successor at the crime scene.