Family disputes topped the list of cases followed by abuse

Dubai Police Social Support provides care for 101 cases last year

  • Ali Juma Al Matrooshi: "The Social Support Department plays a very important role in containing problems before they escalate."

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The Social Support Section of the Women and Child Protection Department of the General Department of Human Rights in Dubai Police recorded 101 cases during the past year, all of which provided them with the required support to overcome the problems they are going through.

The Director of the Women and Child Protection Department, Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Ali Mohammed Juma Al Matrooshi, said that family disputes topped the list of cases to which the department provided support and aftercare during the past year, with 58 cases, while other cases ranged from abuse, wrong behavior, and domestic violence.

He added that the department received 36 cases via phone call, while 21 cases came to the department's headquarters and the rest of the cases were dealt with through other methods.

He pointed out that citizens topped the list of cases provided by the administration with the necessary care by 46 cases, 24 cases from Arab countries, 21 from Asian countries, and cases from multiple other nationalities.

Al Matrooshi stressed that the Social Support Department plays a very important role in containing problems before they escalate or escalate between their parties, and also provides aftercare for cases dealt with by the Women and Child Protection Sections, to ensure that things are going well.

He explained that some complaints are received from the children themselves, or persons in relationships with them, about the refusal of the father and mother to grant nationality to the child, in accordance with the laws regulating either of them, as a result of negligence or conflict between the parties, which complicates the child's life, and here the Department of Women and Child Protection intervenes to discuss the causes and propose urgent solutions to the situation, based on the law that confirms the child's right to obtain nationality.

He explained that one of the most prominent cases that dealt with the Department of Women and Child Protection was an Arab woman married to a European person of Arab origin, and a dispute occurred between them, so he left his children as a result, and returned to his hometown, and asked her to follow him there, but she refused because of her association with her job, and her children's association with the UAE.

He added that the validity of the children's passports expired after about four months, and they dropped out of school because of their inability to renew them, so I resorted to the European embassy, whose nationality the father holds, but embassy officials stressed the need for the father's presence as a condition for renewing passports.

Al Matrooshi pointed out that the woman resorted to the Department of Women and Child Protection, and despite the difficulty and complexity of the situation, the department communicated with the embassy, but it did not respond, and required the presence of the father, so the Social Support Department communicated with his lawyer in the country, but he did not respond.

He stressed that under normal circumstances, the mother could have been told that the administration did everything it could, and that it was an external party, but she did not despair, resorted to the Dubai courts, explained the situation, and a judicial order was issued to renew the passports.

Al Matrooshi said that the woman came to the administration in a state of great emotion, not believing that she holds the new passports in her hand, and explained that the past period negatively affected her in all respects, as the lives of her children were disrupted, without health or educational insurance, and residency fines were accumulated to reach 70,<> dirhams.

He added that the working group for the protection of women and children communicated with the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs, which responded in a wonderful way, understood the situation, and provided it with the necessary assistance, and the woman came to the department again, stressing that she cannot forget what Dubai Police did with her.

Child neglect

The Director of the Women and Child Protection Department, Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Ali Juma Al Matrooshi, stated that there are some complaints about the negligence of the child's guardian in obtaining identification papers for him, due to the failure of the relevant parties to comply with the legal requirements, and then the department provides the necessary care, and communicates with the law enforcement authorities, to apply the rules of proof of parentage, and extract identification documents to enjoy his full legal rights.

The administration ended the suffering of children abandoned by their father without valid passports or care.