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3 Police officers charged with 1 count of Assault Causing Actual Bodily Harm

3 Police officers charged with 1 count of Assault Causing Actual Bodily Harm

By Alipate Narawa
16/03/2024
Acting Commissioner of Police, Juki Fong Chew

Three Police officers have been charged with one count each of Assault Causing Actual Bodily Harm by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

The three Police officers are charged for their involvement in the alleged assault of two youths in February 2020.

Acting Commissioner of Police, Juki Fong Chew has also directed that the three be sent on leave and interdicted with half pay after exhausting all their leave.

The three are alleged to have on the 14th day of February 2020 whilst based at the Totogo Police Station stopped a minivan the two had been traveling in following a report that they had been playing loud music.

The two victims aged 16 and 19 years were told to get off, and they were escorted to the Market Police Post, where they were searched and allegedly assaulted.

They will be produced at the Suva Magistrates Court on Monday.

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