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Policing in Brief;Spain: Policeman punished for unjustified detention:

01 March 2003

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A local municipal policeman from Madrid was found guilty of detaining a woman "for no reason whatsoever", got a six-year sentence and 8 years disqualification from public service. The policeman knew the woman (a foreigner who had been nationalised Spanish) because she was a witness against him in a trial in 1994. He is alleged to have threatened her repeatedly in the street, saying "I won't stop until I have you expelled from Spain". The arrest occurred on 24 March 1999, when the policeman asked the woman for her identity card, before handcuffing and arresting her, throwing her to the ground and striking her. El País 14.3.03.

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