I am in the Safety industry and it is not unusual if the is an serious accident on a building site or workplace that the Health and Safety Guy gets locked up... as a scape goat! It is worrying but in Abu Dhabi its varies, I deat with two deaths on sites and was never put in jail, didn't even go to court...

Sometimes I think its how we behave when confronted by the authorities which determines our fate... Be nice, try and learn some arabic and be very respectful of their authority or on your head be it!