Police officer sentenced to probation after slaps in the face

The defendant had behaved “like a gangster in uniform” in the respective situations, said the presiding judge. The accused “with this type of pressure and apparently cannot handle”. With the conviction, the 27-year-old’s career should be over at the police, it continued in the judgment.

The officer on April 19, 2024 had a suspect on April 19, 2024 in police section 56. A suspected shoplifter was affected that was alcoholic and tied up with his hands on the back.

Around three weeks later, he had given a arrested man in a bakery on the Hackescher Markt in Berlin-Mitte. The accused said that he would only get something to drink if he had answered questions, the court said.

With slaps “get out of the tunnel”

The policeman had stood the baking pipes. In the situations he behaved “impulsive and unprofessional” – “I have crossed limits,” said the accused. He asked for forgiveness. In the first case, the person concerned shouted and mobbed on the guard that he had not calmed down. With a slap, he “wanted to get him out of the tunnel”.

It was similar on May 9, 2024 on the Hackescher Markt. The suspect had loudly complained about the police measures for suspected drug trafficking. He also wanted to get this man out of an “extreme tunnel” by slap in the face. Colleagues would have rightly withdrawn him. He immediately apologized to the suspect.

“I learned from my mistakes,” said the 27-year-old, against whom disciplinary proceedings are also underway. Because of the incidents, he had entered therapy. The defense lawyer said his client was a police officer with a “exaggerated service motivation”. After a relationship failed, the misconception occurred. With regard to professional consequences, “high probability is now to be expected that a lifelong dream has burst”.

The prosecutor had pleaded for a punishment of eight months in prison for probation – the prosecutor did not see an attempted statement. The defender called this application “too hard for this slip”. The lawyer did not make a specific application. The judgment is not yet final.