How to Report Cyber Crime in UAE: Every Official Channel, Emirate by Emirate

The table lists each channel as its owner describes it. The two emirate services are run by Dubai Police and Abu Dhabi Police; the Ministry of Interior platform and My Safe Society are federal.

Three of these problems have their own guides: online blackmail and sextortion, a fake account in your name and defamation in UAE law. The table below gives the starting point for each, and the provision of Federal Decree-Law No. 34 of 2021 on Countering Rumours and Cybercrimes that applies.

Dubai Police describes the service as enabling the public to submit complaints related to electronic fraud and cybercrimes. It lists the completion time as instant, which describes the submission rather than the investigation. Smart Police Stations, open around the clock, offer the same service in person.

The old ecrime.ae address now forwards to the Dubai Police cybercrime page, which has separate options for tourists and residents. Go to the Dubai Police page or the official Dubai Police app for iOS or Android, not to a third-party site that offers to file for you.

The contacts listed for the service are the Dubai Police call centre on 901 and mail@dubaipolice.gov.ae. In an emergency, call 999.

If the problem is a defamatory post, this complaint is the first step of a defamation case. Our guide on how to file a defamation case in Dubai covers what follows: the time limit, the civil claim and who may represent you.

The Abu Dhabi Police homepage presents Aman as a service 'for a secure and stable society', and its 'Submit Aman case' button leads to aman.adpolice.gov.ae. The homepage shows the two numbers without saying how each one is used, so if you are unsure, start with the website.

The UAE government portal lists Aman as Abu Dhabi Police's channel for reporting cybercrime. You can also go to a police station in the emirate. If a case is brought, it is heard in the courts of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, one of the three independent local judiciaries in the UAE.

For the reputation side of an Abu Dhabi matter, such as removal requests to platforms while the police case runs, see our page on online reputation management in Abu Dhabi.

The Ministry of Interior platform offers three services, cybercrime reporting, information submission and consultation, and reports made on it are referred to the Public Prosecution, as described when it was launched. It is a federal channel, so it is open whichever emirate you are in.

My Safe Society is listed on Google Play by the UAE Federal Public Prosecution, last updated in April 2026. Its description says it lets the public report crimes or suspicious activities on social media that may disrupt national or social security or general order, or negatively affect public opinion, while keeping the reporting individuals completely confidential. Photos, videos, audio clips and URLs can be attached.

My Safe Society is built for harm to the public. A post that damages only your own reputation fits the police route better, because insult and slander proceed only on the victim's own complaint.

The federal channels are not tied to one emirate, and a police station takes a report in person wherever you are. If the matter goes to court, the court system differs by emirate. Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah and Umm Al Quwain use the federal judiciary, headed by the Federal Supreme Court. Ras Al Khaimah has its own independent RAK Courts, as Dubai and Abu Dhabi have their own judiciaries.

Each system has three tiers: a Court of First Instance, a Court of Appeal, and then the Federal Supreme Court in the federal system or a Court of Cassation in the emirates with their own judiciary. The criminal courts hear cases brought by the federal or local prosecution in each emirate.

Do not delete the chat, the account you were contacted on, or your own messages, even if they embarrass you. The full record helps the police. Capture first, then block and report the account on the platform. Collect the following.

Article 11 of the Criminal Procedures Law, Federal Decree-Law No. 38 of 2022, makes a complaint by the victim, a representative or an attorney under a special power of attorney a condition for prosecuting 'insult and slander of people'. Our review of the official texts did not settle whether the same three-month limit governs the online offence in Article 43 of the Cybercrime Decree-Law, so take advice within three months of learning of the post and who made it.

No law gives platforms a fixed number of hours to act. Under the Cybercrime Decree-Law, orders to correct, remove or block content come from the competent authorities, meaning the federal or local authorities concerned with electronic and cyber security, and the Attorney General may order blocking. Each order states its own period. Under Article 53, failing to remove illegal content within the period specified in such an order is punished with a fine of AED 300,000 to AED 1,000,000. A private person cannot issue such an order.

A block ordered in the UAE works in the UAE only. The Decree-Law defines access blocking orders as orders to disable users' access in the UAE to a website or account, so the content stays online elsewhere. Under the TDRA's Internet Access Management policy, a user who wants access to a page blocked asks their internet service provider, which publishes its own procedure, and the TDRA considers requests only from the providers.

If the person responsible is abroad, report anyway. Article 69 applies the Decree-Law to offences committed outside the UAE where, among other cases, the crime harms any of its nationals or residents.

Platforms act on their own policies, separately from any criminal case. Google also runs its own removal routes. Its Search removal policies cover personal sexual content, personally identifiable information and doxxing content, and content related to people under 18, and other content that should be removed under the law goes through its legal-removal process. Removal from Google Search is not removal from the web: the page stays online until the site or platform takes it down.

This is the part RepuLex does, alongside the police report and the UAE lawyer you instruct, never instead of them: the dated evidence record, the platform and Google reports, and monitoring for the same content coming back. RepuLex does not file police reports or complaints, and a platform, not RepuLex, decides each report. Our page on online reputation management in the UAE sets out that work.