A San Pedrano is claiming that he and other detainees were beaten in police custody. He alleged that four officers went into their cell and assaulted them. However, the ComPol told us today that that story isn't entirely true. He clarified that the officers were conducting their duties when the men attacked them, even shoving one out of a vehicle. Here's how he explained it.
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"I spoke to the OC, or the divisional commander of the coastal area Mr Cowo this morning on that issue and my briefing from Mr Cowo is that these individuals, I think there were three of them, detained in a cell with another person. Having detained them in a cell with the other person, we found out that the other person has a mental disability. Our policy is that once you have a person who is mentally challenged that person must be detained separately from other prisoners. So the police officers went to the cellblock to remove those individuals who were not classified as mentally challenged out of the cell where this mentally challenge person was and when the officers went to do that these three individuals attacked the police officers. The officers received varying degree of injury including when transporting them to the hospital, one of them stamped the police out of the vehicle, almost killing him and the police have since charged those individuals for the injuries they caused to the police officers. So we need to be honest and we have to understand that police officers are human being and when police are going their job, we must always ensure we work with them and we corporate with them even if we feel the police officer is wrong, you have responsibility to corporate and after you have done so, you can always make a complaint if you feel the police have wronged you. So again I personally did not see anything wrong that the police officers did, nonetheless I have tasked the professional standard branch to go out and look at the situation, we may have video footage and that will be able to help the police's investigation."
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