Spanish police have detained four police officers, including three chiefs responsible for fighting organized crime, on charges of several criminal offences, police said Wednesday. The four worked on the southern Costa del Sol coast, which is known for the presence of numerous international criminal rings. The three chiefs were based in Malaga, Marbella and Fuengirola. The officers were suspected of keeping objects they had confiscated from criminals, making illegal house searches and revealing confidential information to outsiders. One of them was already awaiting trial on charges of helping an Italian drug trafficker flee. An entrepreneur and an interpreter were also held. The affair was "painful and delicate," because it affected the reputation of the national police force, government delegate Hilario Lopez Luna said.
Senior official Antonio Camacho stressed that police themselves had discovered the alleged irregularities in their midst. The National Police internal affairs unit has arrested four National Policemen and two other people in Málaga and Fuengirola. The team moved into several offices of the main provincial police station in Málaga yesterday evening, according to El Mundo. The paper says that several police chiefs have complained about ‘the bad way’ in which the arrests were carried out.All those police arrested are Inspectors or Chief Inspectors belong to the specialist drug and organised crime unit UDYCO, and are accused of corruption and the crime of revealing confidential information obtained during police activity.The previous head of the UDYCO unit on the Costa del Sol, Valentín Bahut, was replaced a year ago after being charged with not following uip on certain crimes linked to a police informer, an Italian based in Benalmádena, Marco Torello Rollero. He finally faced 18 months in prison in that case, with an 11 year ban on holding public office.The Internal Affairs Unit in Málaga has arrested four high ranking police officers assigned to the specialist UDYCO (drugs and organised crime) section of the National Police on the Costa del Sol.The arrests have come after a two year investigation into alleged ‘irregularities’ during the conducting of house searches. One of those arrested is a Chief Inspector, the other three are Inspectors and all have long and distinguished careers in the UDYCO-Costa del Sol.Also arrested in connection with the case are two private individuals, one a civilian interpreter for the police, the other a businessman in Marbella.The detainees allegedly appropriated assets during the carrying out of house searches and also leaked confidential information. In addition, the investigators are trying to establish whether the arrested men were connected to a network trafficking in women for the purpose of prostitution.
Málaga and Fuengirola National Police Chief Inspectors and Inspectors arrested by internal affairs
So the Spanish are wooried about a few bent cops in the National Police. The Marbella council Ayuntamiento, employs hundreds of police officers, but when they act unlawfully, 'unlawful detenion' 'pistol whipping' 'baton whipping' 'and threats to life' resulting in serious injury, they are protected. Obviously Spain has serious problems keeping it's own house in order. With the Police forces and the Courts protecting the 'cops' for their unlawful activities, and preventing ny restorative justice for victims. The courts also protect the 'ayuntamiento de Marbella' and their mayors from any 'civil action' by victims, further evidence of systemic corruption which would imply that the 'rot' doesn't just stop with the 'mayors of the Costa del Sol, but obviously goes much higher up. You would think Franco wa still alive. I would suggest that the'systemic corruption' goes all the way to Madrid.
It would appear that not one 'police agency' of the Spanish State is without 'dirt under the rug'. So 4 Police Chief Inspectors will go to court, big deal. When I was a victim of state sponsored terrorism at the hands of the Policia Municpal, the prosecutors said, "don't worry, they will be jailed. They are no longer protected by the uniform, the moment they step outsde the law", well that proved to be a joke. They got a few weeks 'incarceration' for threatening my life, leaving me with severe PTSD, and back problems which have seen me unable to continue in my chosen profession. They will not acknowledge my correspondence, they just do not want to know. They told me "we are demanding 2 years prison", and a gunman who committed the same crime against me a week earlier (claiming to work for the Policia Municipal-but a car-thief) got the full two years.
The police officers, who were guilty of far worse crimes, got a few weeks in the 'Commisariat de Policia Municipal' in San Pedro De Alcantara. A few weeks in a police station, in the bosom of their family, with colleagues and friends to fete them and reward them for their heinous crime, is evidence that neither the Judiciary, nor the Monarchy, nor the various branches of the Police and the Legislature could not give a flying monkey's .... about civil or human rights violations, nor about the institutionalised corruption apparent ever time the city of Marbella appoints another 'corrupt mayor'.
Let's face it, the crims self-police, and the cops just grow fat off the graft and corruption, so why are we going to have any faith in the Spanish Authorities, to 'clean house'. Just more filth under the rug.
They are an International Disgrace on the issue of 'abuse of power' 'human rights violations by their police forces'