Four CID impersonators arrested

Dubai: Police have arrested four suspects on charges of impersonating as CID personnel, stopping people and taking their wallets and mobile phones.

Colonel Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, Deputy Director of Dubai Police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), said three of the suspects are Emiratis while one of them is a Pakistani.

He said the four suspects are aged between 15 to 30 years and they had rented a car from a rental agency in Dubai, which they drove to Asian labourers' accommodations that do not accommodate large numbers.

Whenever they saw a labourer walking alone, they stopped him and asked for his identification papers, claiming that they were from the CID. They would then take the victim's wallet and mobile phone and flee the scene.

Colonel Al Mansouri said the suspects also attacked one person who refused to part with his phone and wallet. They took the man to a deserted area, assaulted him, took his belongings and left him in the desert.

Colonel Al Mansouri said the CID received four complaints about the same methods of theft. CID then formed special teams to follow up the cases and the car used to gather information about the suspects.

By matching the description of the suspects, CID traced one juvenile in Sharjah. He was arrested and confessed to police about his partners' names. He said all the suspects confessed their crime and the victims have identified them.