Child and Women Protection Department handles 191 cases in 2015

Dubai - Dubai Police’s Child and Women Protection Department handled 191 cases between January and September 2015.

Brigadier Mohammad Al Murr, Director of Dubai Police’s Human Rights Department — of which the Child and Women Protection Department is a part — said that of the 191 cases, 55 were handled by the social support unit, 36 by the children’s protection unit and 21 by the women’s protection unit.

Of the 55 cases handled by the social support unit in 2015, seven were cases of neglect, 10 were of domestic violence, two involved mistreatment, 13 were family disputes, five were related to custody, eight were related to monetary allowance, and 10 cases involved people who came in for counselling.

In 2014, the social support unit handled 96 cases, the children’s protection unit 62 and the women’s protection unit handled 33.

Major Shaheen Ishaq Al Mazmi, Director of the Department, said one of the cases they helped with involved a couple with four children who were in the process of getting a divorce.

“The couple had many problems and they tried to resolve them, but the woman could not take it anymore so she took her eldest daughter,10, and left the house and filed for a divorce,” he said.

The couple’s other three children, two girls aged nine and seven, and a boy aged four, stayed with the father.

“They were on bad terms and for four months, the wife wouldn’t let the husband see his daughter, and the husband wouldn’t let his wife see the other children,” Al Mazmi said.

The department got the parents to sit together and helped them reach an agreement so both of them can see all their children until the divorce was finalised.

The meeting between the parents and their children was very touching, Al Mazmi said.