A police sub-officer of the Patrol and Sentinel Regiment “Scut” of the General Police Commissariat was sentenced to two years behind bars for punching and kicking three young men at the Buiucani Police Commissariat, IPN reports.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, on the New Year’s Eve of 2011, the policeman was called by his father to deal with a conflict that arouse between his sister and several young men in Dumbrava village of Chisinau municipality. Considering that one of the persons involved in the conflict didn’t obey the orders of the police, he punched him in the face. Afterward, he escorted the young men to the police commissariat, where he beat them.
Last summer, the police officer was acquitted by the Buiucani Court. The decision was appealed to the Chisinau Appeals Court, which sentenced the policeman to two years in jail and banned him from holding posts in the Ministry of the Interior’s bodies for a period of three years. The sentence can be appealed to a higher court.
As many as 569 complaints about ill-treatment and use of torture by the police were filed by people to Prosecutor’s Offices last year.
