ThoseMunicipal police in Lancy
Responsible for the parking brigade, he made his fine disappear
In Lancy, an agent tried to erase the traces of a contravention drawn up against his own vehicle. He was found guilty of false and abuse of authority.
The post of the municipal police of Lancy where the sentenced agent worked.
Lucien fortunate
- The former head of the Lancy parking brigade tried to erase a personal fine.
- The police officer falsified documents and deleted vehicle photos.
- The case was discovered by the verbalizing agent, who alerted the hierarchy.
- The Attorney General sentenced the defendant to a 50-day suspended sentence.
“I can’t explain why I did that. I will blame it all my life. ” These are the words of the municipal police officer of Lancy heard by the General Inspectorate of Services (IGS) after trying to make a fine of his own car disappear.
This official, former chief of the parking brigade from the city of Lancysought to erase a fine of 40 francs inflicted at the end of November by one of its subordinates, for prolonged parking in the blue zone.
Two days after having been verbalized, the municipal police officer accesses the Journal des fines of order, cancels the PV, and modifies the registration of his plate. It also removes the photographs of the vehicle by accessing the file of the agent who had stuck it.
Spotted and denounced by a colleague
Manipulation is not only computer. On the strain (Editor’s note: the fine book)it also changes the figures of the plate, then writes, by hand, the mention: “canceled”.
The subterfuge could have gone unnoticed. But by consulting the Journal of Fines of order, the verbalizer agent discovers that the contravention of his superior has been modified. The accused will say that he asked his subordinate to cancel it, and which the latter would have accepted. Challenges him to have given any agreement. After discussion, the team decides to report the facts to their hierarchy.
Quickly summoned to service interview, the defendant recognizes the facts and presents his resignation for the end of the month. But the case does not stay there: at the end of February, the administrative council alerts the prosecution. A criminal investigation is open.
“Oral instructions”
Heard by the IGS, the policeman quickly recognizes the facts. Yes, it was he who canceled the fine. Yes, he changed the plate. No, he cannot explain why. He says he acted in a moment of fatigue, in a climate of overload, referring to alleged “oral instructions” prohibiting colleagues from verbalizing themselves during their service.
A kind of implicit pact between agents, unverifiable. But above all nonexistent in the eyes of Olivier Jornot, who made a criminal prescription to him last July.
In his ordinance, the Attorney General considers that the defendant “intentionally observed a fact having a fact having legal scope” by canceling a valid PV. According to the prosecution, even to suppose informal tolerance, nothing justified to modify a plate, to falsify a document, nor to make evidence disappear.
A police station in crisis
Decognized by false in the titles and abuse of authority, he received from 50 days amended to 140 francs, accompanied by a stay of 3 years, as well as an immediate fine of 1,400 francs.
The decision was not disputed. Contacted, the agent’s lawyer, Me Yama Sangin, did not wish to comment on the case, any more than the town hall of Lancy, which is content to confirm that “the collaborator is no longer one of the staff of the city”.
In Lancy, the case is part of an already weakened service. Municipal police recently gone through a crisisfollowing accusations of harassment, series departures and in an atmosphere where “fear by fear” would have dominated.
Note that the criminal order notes that the agent had already received a warning for other breaches ten days before the manipulation which will earn him a conviction.
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