NEW Amsterdam Magistrate Sherdell Issacs-Marcus has advised accused persons making allegations of being assaulted by the police to take their complaints to the attention of the station commander prior to an investigation being launched.Her remarks were made after robbery suspect, Eon Mickle, alleged that he had been beaten in the face by a police rank whom he named.

The police are alleging that this defendant, in company of others and being armed with a cutlass, robbed restaurateur Lim Kang of a total of $705,000. – comprising $300,000 cash, an Acer laptop, two cartoons of cigarettes, and a quantity of Digicel and GT&T phone cards.

The defendant has denied the charge, and has noted that after his mother had informed him that the police were searching for him, he, accompanied by his brother, went to the Central Police Station, where he met the investigating rank.

After his brother had been told to go, Mickle alleged, his hands were handcuffed behind his back, and the police rank began slapping him in the face.

“Then he told me to go to the back. He then took out his gun, put it to my head, and threatened to shoot me. An officer came in the room and asked the identified rank ‘why you playing with a gun to the boy’s head? Use a baton and a condom instead’.
The defendant also informed the magistrate that an identification parade had not been held.

Mickle was denied bail, but the matter is fixed for report on January 31.