State defends lapses in raid on ex-defence minister’s home
22 Jun 2015, 4:16 PM
Hassan Mohamed
State prosecutors have defended the police’s failure to videotape a raid in which a pistol and three bullets were discovered in the ex-defence minister Mohamed Nazim’s apartment.
The retired colonel was sentenced to 11 years in jail on weapons smuggling charges. He maintains he was framed by rogue police officers, and has taken up the police’s failure to follow standard operating procedures as a key argument in an ongoing appeal at the High Court.
But public prosecutor Adam Arif today said that the police can “change the standard operating procedure whenever they want to.”
“The criminal court’s judgment that said police are not required to follow the standard operation procedure is lawful. These procedures set up by the police are subject to change at any time. These procedures are always changing,” he said.
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