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2021-05-26

The One Day Cause Initiative enhances the rule of law and prompt justice and achieves impressive results

DXB Public Prosecution News 26MAY2021 1

The one-day case initiative and its application in the Public Prosecution Office in Dubai constituted a milestone in the development of judicial work in the United Arab Emirates, and at the level of the region as well.

The initiative of the one-day case is represented in the investigation, action, referral to the court, issuing and implementing the judgment within 24 hours. The one-day case program includes cases (violations and misdemeanors) that do not require reports and witnesses.

His Excellency Essam Issa Al Humaidan, Attorney General of the Emirate of Dubai, said that the one-day case initiative has enhanced the speed of achievement and the rule of justice, and achieved the desired results in deepening judicial specializations, reducing red tape to the maximum extent, and expediting the settlement of cases, whether one-day cases by classifying them within this category of cases. that are completed in one day, or other cases that the courts will devote themselves to.

The one-day issue initiative has been implemented in phases, namely:
The first phase: implementing the project on specific charges, during 2015 and 2016.
Phase 2: Adding additional charges within the One Day Case initiative, in 2017.
The third stage: listing all misdemeanors ready for dismissal (suspended/ guaranteed) during 2018.

The first stage: applying the initiative to specific matters :
– The initiative was implemented in the Nationality and Residency Prosecution, Traffic and Traffic Prosecution, and Al Muraqqabat Center during 2015 and the beginning of 2016.
– Presenting the results of the application to the Executive Council, and based on the recommendations, the application was stopped at the Traffic and Traffic Prosecution and the Nationality and Residence Prosecution, while the application continued in the Deira Prosecution – Al Muraqqabat Police Station during 2016.
– The results of the application were re-presented to the Executive Council, and the experiment was circulated in the Barsha Center, the Traffic and Traffic Prosecution, and the Nationality and Residency Prosecution during 2017.
– His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God protect him, has approved the . initiativeThe ” one-day case” is among the strategic initiatives of the Dubai Plan 2021 with the aim of raising the efficiency of judicial work and speeding up litigation procedures in the Emirate of Dubai.
The Attorney General of the Emirate of Dubai said that His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s adoption of the initiative confirms the wise leadership’s support for all initiatives aimed at facilitating and facilitating work, raising its efficiency, and achieving prompt justice.

The one-day case concerns during the first phase:

Deira Prosecution Office – Al Muraqqabat Center: The cases of the Deira Prosecution Office at Al Muraqqabat Center include 4 types of charges:
1- Alcohol use (statistics are for
2- Giving a check in bad faith.
3- Showing you in bad faith.
4- Refusal to pay the wages due to him.
The Nationality and Residence Prosecution: It includes 3 charges, which are:
1- Stay in the country illegally.
2- Return after removal.
3- Entering the country illegally.
Traffic Prosecution: It includes 7 charges as follows:
1- Wrongly causing harm to the integrity of the body of others.
2- Destruction of owned funds.
3- Alcohol abuse (until the end of 2020).
4- Driving a vehicle on the road under the influence of alcoholic beverages.
5- Attempting to drive a vehicle on the road under the influence of alcoholic beverages.
6- Possession of alcoholic beverages in cases other than those authorized by law.
7- Driving a vehicle without a driver’s license.

The second stage: adding additional charges within the one-day case initiative, where the following charges were added:
Deira Prosecution Office – Al Muraqqabat Center: It includes two charges:
1- Possession of alcoholic beverages.
2- beggary
The Nationality and Residence Prosecution: It includes 3 charges, which are:
1- I have no sponsor.
2- work after cancellation.
3- Leaving the unqualified job.

The third stage: the inclusion of all misdemeanors ready for separation (suspended/guaranteed):
All charges have been added to misdemeanors ready for dismissal so that the accused is arrested or guaranteed (not including the case files in absentia).

And “Al-Humaidan” indicated that all the charges that were included in the one-day cases, came after a study and scrutiny, as the Public Prosecution in Dubai reached the possibility of linking them to the one-day cases and deciding them in one day, so that the space is allowed to decide on those cases with the speed and accuracy required and without delay or accumulation.

Dissemination of the One-Day Cause Initiative at the Federal Level:
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, issued a decision to circulate “one-day issues” at the federal level on September 16 2018 AD.
Ministerial Resolution No. (704) for the year 2020, regarding the establishment of a “One-Day Misdemeanour Court” in all the Federal Judicial Courts, was issued in December 2020.

One-day case statistics:
The working representative of the Emirate of Dubai confirmed that the one-day cases have achieved excellent results since their implementation, and sometimes exceeded the targets, and as happened in all sectors and governmental and non-governmental businesses during the year 2020, from closing and stopping due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of single-day cases has been affected by that.

– Number of cases per day by years:
The number of one-day cases during the year 2020 decreased to 2,621, due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, after the general closure that took place, and its ensuing effects.
The number of one-day cases during 2019 reached 6,191 cases, compared to 9,949 cases in 2018, and 25,047 cases in 2017, as the number of one-day cases decreased in 2018 due to the application of the penal order, while the number of one-day cases reached 2,249 cases in 2016, and 3,135 cases in 2015.

– Number of cases per day by months during the year 2020:
The number of one-day cases during the month of January reached 655 cases, and 616 cases during the month of February, and the most expensive cases decreased during the month of March, then the one-day cases stopped during the months of April and May 2020 due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and resumed in June to reach 43 cases, then 148 Cases in July, 196 cases in August, 187 cases in September, 154 cases in October, followed by 187 cases in November, and 140 cases in December 2020.

– The number of cases per day by prosecutors during the year 2020 :
Deira Prosecution won the highest rate of application of one-day cases with 33 percent of the total cases in 2020, reaching 871 cases, followed by the Nationality and Residency Prosecution, which witnessed 821 cases representing 31 percent of the total one-day cases during the year 2020.
As for the Bur Dubai Prosecution, there were 735 one-day cases in 2020, and one-day cases in the Traffic Prosecution reached 194 cases in 2020.

– The number of cases per day according to the charges during the year 2020 AD:
The charge of “giving a check in bad faith” topped the charges of one-day cases during 2020, reaching 1,165 cases, constituting 31 percent of the total cases, followed by the accusation of illegally staying in the country, which constituted 17 percent of the cases:
countsyear 2020

the numberThe ratio
Giving a check in bad faith116531%
Staying in the country illegally65317%
Working on a visitor visa3309%
Alcohol use (until the end of 2020)3058%
Working for a non-sponsor2447%
Driving a vehicle under the influence of alcoholic beverages1775%
Possession of alcoholic beverages with the intent to supply others1434%
Returning after deportation762%
Entering the country illegally752%
begging722%
Wrongly causing damage to money owned by others722%
Other44112%

Number of cases per day according to the charges of the third stage:
The charge of “working on a visitor visa” represented the highest percentage of the charges in the third stage, which included all charges ready for dismissal, during the year 2020, and constituted 9 percent of the total:

countsnumber of countsThe ratio
Working on a visitor visa3309%
Wrongly causing damage to money owned by others722%
Work without official permission551%
Driving an uninsured vehicle on a public road221%
Driving an expired vehicle191%
Failure to stop at the scene of the accident when it occurred from him or on him resulted in damage to the property of others180.5%
Practicing the profession of a street vendor without a license90.2%
Other322886%

His Excellency the Attorney General noted that, given Dubai’s economic and financial position in the region and the world, and the influx of many visitors and job seekers, it is natural that issues related to the Nationality and Residency Prosecution, and violating labor laws such as working on a visit visa, top the issues of one day.

Number of cases per day according to police stations during the year 2020:
Police station nameNumber of cases per dayThe ratio
Al Muraqqabat Police Station63124%
Naif Police Station43116%
Al Barsha Police Station33113%
Bur Dubai Police Station32112%
Al Raffa Police Station25910%
Rashidiya Center2509%
Al Qusais Police Station1305%
Jebel Ali Police Station1144%
Immigration Police Station843%
Port Police Station301%
Others (includes Al Habab Police Station, Airport, Hatta, Al Faqa and Traffic Department)402%
Total2651100%

The number of defendants in the one-day case by prosecutors during the year 2020:
The total number of defendants in the one-day case during the year 2020, reached 10,965, distributed among the four prosecutions as follows:
– Bur Dubai Prosecution: 3,411 accused.
– Deira Prosecution: 3,363 accused.
– The Nationality and Residence Prosecution: 2,627 accused.
– Traffic and Traffic Prosecution: 1564 accused.

Performance indicators for one-day cases:
First: Speed of trial and execution in one-day cases:
The percentage of one-day cases that were tried within 24 hours amounted to 71 percent of the total cases handled within 24 hours, and 99 percent of the one-day cases are executed within 24 of the total cases ruled within 24 hours.
The course of the one-day caseCases referred within 24 hoursCases settled within 24 hoursThe cases were ruled and executed within 24 hours
Nationality and Residence Prosecution1083841821
Deira Prosecution1042880871
Bur Dubai Prosecution1022743735
Traffic and Traffic Prosecution580196194
Total372726602621
The ratio71%99%

Second: Percentage of one-day cases out of the total misdemeanour cases referred to the court:
The percentage of one-day cases of the total misdemeanour cases referred to the court represented 20% during the year 2020, compared to the target set in coordination with the Executive Council, which is not less than 50%.

Statistical details of misdemeanors cases disposed of:
Misdemeanors – penal order cases amounted to 15,745 cases, or 54%.
Misdemeanors – one-day cases amounted to 2,621 cases, a percentage of 9%.
Misdemeanors cases referred to the court (not cases of one day) reached 10,561 cases, representing 37%.
His Excellency the Attorney General of the Emirate of Dubai concluded his statements by saying: The Public Prosecution in Dubai always seeks to develop and facilitate work, in line with the latest and best international practices in judicial work. One-day issues, and other initiatives, with the aim of achieving the leadership’s aspirations in applying the highest standards of customer happiness, adopting the latest technologies, and developing government work to be among the highest levels globally.

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