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-file to be sent to DPP today
Two female police ranks are likely to know early next week if they will face disciplinary action for allegedly beating a young woman outside the Wismar Police Station earlier this month.
Valicia Richardson displays her injuries.
Valicia Richardson, 20, alleged that she suffered head and facial injuries on November 6, last, after one of the policewomen struck her with a mop-stick. She said that the ranks also damaged her mobile phone.
Richardson, who took photographs of her injuries, said that the incident occurred when she went to the station to collect money from a police constable, who is the father of her child.
She said that they “had a talk” (quarrel) and the constable took away her phone and purse then went into the station with the items.
Richardson alleged that a policewoman at the station accused her of pointing her hand in the rank’s face. She alleged that the rank then struck her, while another policewoman pulled off her wig.
According to Richardson, she was eventually taken to the Enquiries Office where she collected her purse and phone.
But as she was leaving the compound, one of the policewomen who had assaulted her earlier blocked the gateway.
When she attempted to pass, the rank, who had a mop-stick, struck her on the back, causing her purse to fall. When she bent to pick it up, the policewoman struck her on the head, tearing her scalp in the process.
Richardson said that a male rank gave her a piece of cloth to staunch the blood.
She was subsequently treated at the Mackenzie Hospital, and obtained a medical. Richardson said she also filed a complaint the following day with Divisional Commander Fazil Karimbaksh, and later with the Police Complaints Authority.
She alleged that the policewomen denied assaulting her. One of the ranks even claimed that Richardson had accidentally struck her head on the station gate.
In a release, the Police Public Relations Department stated that the complaint was being investigated by the Office of Professional Responsibility.
Officials from the Office of Professional Responsibility were yesterday preparing to send a report to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) after completing their investigations.
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