Attorney-General H E Dr Ali bin Fetais Al Marri at the inauguration of the Qatar Public Prosecution Office at the Hamad International Airport yesterday.
Qatar Public Prosecution opened an office at Hamad International Airport (HIA) to facilitate passengers to pay penalties if they have.
The new office allows passengers who have received fines and are prevented from travel to pay their fines and lift the ban. The office will remain open round the clock, seven days in a week. The office has other services including inquiries. Members of the public prosecution are available round the clock to make necessary procedures in a matter of minutes.
Attorney-General H E Dr Ali bin Fetais Al Marri told reporters that any person who is banned from travel can approach the office and pay fines if they have any. He noted that the office can only process travel bans issued by the Public Prosecution and not by any other state authority. He also announced intentions of opening another office at Abu Samra crossing.
The new office is the latest step by the Public Prosecution in swift justice and help process some of the verdicts that might prevent passengers from leaving the country. The new office will also look into crimes that took place aboard planes such as smoking, making noise or not following the directions of the cabin crew among others.
The office will process lifting the travel ban imposed on any person due to issuance of court orders in the cases of check-without-balance or other fines. The affected person can approach the office of Public Production at the Airport and within few minutes the travel ban will be lifted after he/she paid the due in the cases of check without balances or any other liabilities.
HIA office to decide minor cases
The travel ban is not unnecessary but it was made for some reasons to serve public interests, said Al Marri.
“The office has been opened in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior and Public Prosecution to ease and speed up the procedures required from the passengers,” said Brigadier Arar Al Rumaihi, Director of Airport Security Department.
The office will also take the necessary actions in minor cases related to the transit passengers at the HIA, said Al Rumaihi.
The office will also investigate the crimes mentioned in the law of civil aviation about unruly passengers like smoking in the flights and making noise or disturbing passengers or not following the instructions of cabin crew and other crimes on board, said Turky Rashid Al Muhannadi, from the Public Prosecution.
The office will open investigation in aforementioned cases and finalise it at the HIA without need to transfer from Airport to the police station and then to the Public Prosecution.
The cases will be decided at the same place in a bid to ease the procedures, said Al Muhannadi.
The prosecutor will investigate the case and take the appropriate action in setting free the accused or sending him to judicial remand as per the seriousness of the case. He can keep the case or refer it to the court concerned. He can issue orders as well.
The new office will help ease the travel procedures for the passengers with travel ban issued by the Public Prosecution, said Yusuf Juma Al Sulaiti, Head of the Public Production Office at HIA.
The most travel ban cases issued by the Public Prosecution are related to check-without-balance, so the passenger could pay the amount of the bounced check at the office to left the ban, said Al Sulaiti.
