The prosecutor believed that a police officer should be deprived of his choir card. But the Court in Holbæk did not agree, and now the man has been acquitted.
An officer sat at the Court in Holbæk accused of 25 violations of the traffic law. Including i.a. to have short 200 km/h with an arrested person in the car and faced with mess several times.
The prosecution believed that the man should be punished with a fine and a disqualification from the right of way. But the district court did not agree.
And therefore the officer is not punished. This is written by TV2 via Ritzau.
It was the State Attorney in Copenhagen who, on the basis of an investigation by the so-called Independent Police Complaint Authority, chose to bring charges against the officer.
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The public prosecutor saw it, among other things. as an aggravating circumstance, that the officer drove madly with an arrested person in the car. However, charges could not be brought for insanity, as the conditions for which the officer was charged took place before the law was introduced in March 2021.
Why did the officer break the traffic law 25 times in 15 minutes? It emerged in court that he was chasing a man who later turned out to be driving around without a driver's license.
And you can do that with impunity as a police officer in Denmark. Incidentally, it is not the first time that the police go completely free in court. In January this year, an officer was acquitted in the district court, even though he killed a 76-year-old woman. Read more about that case here .
Officers have also gone unpunished in other cases behind the wheel. In 2005, for example, an officer was acquitted of drunken driving on Æro in the Funen Sea, and in 2007 an officer was acquitted of having shot 20 times at a getaway driver in Copenhagen's northwest quarter.
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