Woman urinated on floor of Ajman police investigator’s office

ABU DHABI // A woman attacked a policeman and urinated on his office floor at Ajman police station, the Federal Supreme Court has heard.

On August 9 last year, the woman, an Emirati, entered an investigation officer’s office and started using his work computer and leaned back on his chair, with one leg raised above the other.

When he asked her to sit properly she replied, according to witnesses: “Who are you ...? I won’t put down my leg!”

She then urinated on the office floor and continued yelling at the officer.

A witness who works for Ajman Police added that the woman left tissue with urine on it in the office of the investigator.

She then sat in the reception and took out a piece of paper and yelled: “I will show you what I will do with this paper.”

Prosecutors charged her with attacking a public employee while carrying out his job.

The First Instance Court sentenced her to pay a Dh2,000 fine. She appealed the verdict, and the Appeals Court suspended her sentence.

The verdict was then raised for appeal at the Supreme Court.

The defendant argued that the verdict falsely applied the law when they concluded that she committed the crime without studying the factors of the incident.

She said the court considered her sitting in an inappropriate position and then refusing to follow the officer’s orders to sit properly an “attack”.

The Supreme Court rejected her argument, because article 249 of the penal code considers every spoken word or act that offends or demeans the status of the employee or makes him the subject of ridicule by others is considered an attack, whether the attack left tangible results or not.

Therefore, the Supreme Court refused the cassation and upheld the appeals verdict.