She warned of the consequences of responding to "defaming" promotional cards.

Dubai Police seizes 2,025 people promoting unlicensed massage centers within 3 years

• Dubai Police arrested 165 people who were proven to have produced and distributed massage cards.

  Photography: Ahmed Ardeti

• Brigadier General Jamal Al Jallaf: "Enhancing safety in the emirate is a shared responsibility between the police and members of society."

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Dubai Police warned of the consequences of responding to massage center cards, which are distributed randomly in the streets, or left on cars, pointing out that going to unlicensed massage centers exposes the person to legal accountability, and also makes him a target for crimes such as theft and extortion.

The Director of the General Department of Criminal Investigation and Investigation, Brigadier General Jamal Salem Al Jallaf, revealed that the campaigns launched by Dubai Police, during the past three years, to combat this phenomenon, resulted in cutting off the service of 3,114 phones registered on those cards, and raiding 218 apartments that were used as unlicensed massage centers. And arrested 2,025 people involved in these practices, including 1,643 people for breaching public morals, and 165 people who were proven to have produced and distributed massage cards.

In detail, the Dubai Police General Command, in cooperation with its partners, launched an awareness campaign to combat the phenomenon of massage cards, and to control their distributors, and unlicensed massage centers, to limit violating and prohibited activities and practices that would prejudice the security and safety of community members.

Al Jallaf said that the campaign was launched under the directives of the Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, Lieutenant-General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, and the follow-up of his assistant for criminal investigations, Major General Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri, with the aim of intensifying awareness and control efforts, to reduce practices that violate the law, monitor unlicensed massage centers, and arrest massage card distributors. In the streets and on vehicles, in a way that distorts the civilized appearance of the emirate, and affects public morals, because it contains obscene images, as well as its promotion of unlicensed massage centers.

Al-Jallaf warned against dealing with unlicensed massage centers that are registered on massage cards, for violating the law, stressing that those who deal with them expose themselves to legal accountability, as well as the possibility of exposing themselves to the risk of theft or extortion from workers in those centers.

He stressed that enhancing security in the emirate is a joint responsibility between the police and community members, calling on the public to report any violating practices, suspicious behavior, or unlicensed massage centers and card distributors, by calling the 901 call center, or through the "Police eye" service on the smart application of the Police. Dubai on mobile phones, pointing out that there are licensed centers, which can be known by communicating with the concerned persons in the Department of Economy and Tourism, via the toll-free phone 800545555, stressing that there is no excuse or justification for anyone in dealing with an unlicensed center.

Unlicensed massage centers

The Director of the General Department of Criminal Investigation and Investigation, Brigadier General Jamal Salem Al Jallaf, praised the efforts of Dubai Police partners in combating and limiting the phenomenon of massage cards, whether by cutting off services from properties that contain apartments for unlicensed massage centers, and issuing violations for properties used for purposes not intended for them, as well as From participating in tracking the path of cards that are distributed in a random way, or left on cars, whether to unlicensed centers or even those that have a license, and uses this illegal mechanism to promote its activities, which entails taking measures against it, such as issuing violations to it, and stopping the licenses of applications New Personal Care Centers.

He stressed the need to deal cautiously with these people, and not to be deceived by tempting prices, or offensive images that are used to lure customers, noting the cooperation of many members of the public to curb these practices.

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