Summary: SHARJAH -- The police in Khorfakkan on Thursday arrested two women for allegedly clicking photographs of women in a fitness centre and beauty salon on their mobile phones.
SHARJAH -- The police in Khorfakkan on Thursday arrested two women for allegedly clicking photographs of women in a fitness centre and beauty salon on their mobile phones.
A senior police officer said one of them was an Indian aged 20 and the other an Arab aged 45.
"The women were arrested because they were invading the privacy of customers and taking pictures without their consent," said Colonel Saif Al Zarri, Director-General of the Eastern Region, Sharjah Police.
"Women visiting such centres have to take caution and be vigilant towards staff members. Due to the difference in their nationalities and cultures, women should be careful when others around them use mobile phones," said Colonel Al Zarri. The police first received a complaint from an Emirati man who claimed that the Indian suspect, who was also a staff member at the fitness centre, was taking pictures of his relative while she was exercising.
A team of women officers of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) visited the fitness centre and detained the Indian. During interrogation, she confessed that she was goaded by her Arab friend into taking pictures of other women. The case has been referred to the Public Prosecution.
Special police unit to handle cyber crimes
The Sharjah Police are planning to set up a special unit for handling such kind of crimes and cyber crimes, a top officer of the Criminal Investigation and Research Department has said.
The officer, who did not want to be named, said more than 180 cases of slandering and blackmailing had been recorded in Sharjah during the last two years. The police managed to track down the suspects in 80 per cent of 
the cases.
The police have also been receiving an increasing number of complaints about bloggers who launch malicious campaigns aimed at ruining the reputation of certain people in revenge, after shooting their pictures or videographs.
In some cases, the offenders have blackmailed or threatened to blackmail women or their families by posting indecent photographs taken on mobile phone cameras on the Internet sites if the victims do not pay up money.
The special police unit is being set up to handle such cyber crimes in the emirate.
He urged victims of blackmail to come forward and expose the offenders so that such crimes are curbed and they act as a deterrent.
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