Denies smuggle banned substances to detainee in police station in return for tramadol A police sergeant has been accused of accepting four tramadol pills as a bribe to smuggle banned substances to a detainee in a police station.

The 27-year-old sergeant, B.O. who worked at Al Rashidiya Police Station, was said to have abused his position and smuggled various banned substances to the 26-year-old Emirati detainee, M.S.

Records said M.S. was detained when he offered the bribe to B.O. to smuggle morphine, oxazepam, clonazepam, procyclidine and tramadol into the detention centre for him.

B.O. is also accused of consuming tramadol and procyclidine.

M.S. was charged with bribing a police officer and taking various banned substances.

A third Emirati suspect, A.A., was charged with taking morphine, procyclidine and tramadol.

'I did not take any bribe,' said B.O. before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Wednesday.

'Did you consume any drug?' presiding judge Maher Salama Al Mahdi asked him.

'Yes I consumed tramadol,' he replied.

M.S. denied the charges.

A.A. admitted that he consumed morphine.

'M.S. did not consume any drug but he took some from me and consumed it without knowing that it was a drug,' A.A. told presiding judge Al Mahdi.

An anti-narcotics police captain testified to prosecutors that an informant told them that the sergeant was smuggling drugs to detainees.

'We arrested the defendant [B.O.] after obtaining prosecutors' permission. Upon questioning, the suspected sergeant [B.O.] claimed that M.S. handed him Dh3,100 and asked him to give it to A.A.'s brother when he visited the police station. The sergeant claimed that M.S. told him that A.A.'s brother would give him two pills hidden inside a pack of cigarettes. He admitted that he smuggled the pack and in return he took tramadol pills from M.S. B.O. alleged during questioning that he smuggled drugs to M.S. three times before his arrest,' the captain told prosecutors.

The trial continues.