Three years in prison for a Madrid national police officer for inventing a drug case to harm a neighbor

The sentence to which elDiario.es has had access, which has already been appealed by the police before the Superior Court of Justice, highlights that the police officer and his victim were neighbors in the Madrid town of Parla and had a very bad relationship for a long time. years, with complaints of injuries and accusations of causing damage and destruction to the building, among other things. It was in 2015 when they denounced each other for alleged assaults and when the Police informed the complainant that he had a record for having been arrested in Madrid with a bag of cocaine two years earlier.

According to the complaint report, his police neighbor had arrested him in 2013 along with another agent on Valverde street in Madrid in possession of a bag of cocaine, near the Leganitos police station where the accused worked. The accusation, as the victim denounced from the beginning, was false and he had never been arrested for possession of cocaine, much less by his neighbor. In addition, he had never been fined or charged for that matter, he had found out two days later. But he could have more consequences: he was dedicated to private security and having a sanction for drug possession could harm him.

The affected person denounced his police neighbor, convinced that this false complaint had been his thing, but the investigating court filed the case up to four times until he was sent to trial at the Provincial Court of Madrid with the Prosecutor’s Office requesting four years in prison for him. Finally, the court has found him guilty of a crime of false documentation and has sentenced him to three years in prison, in addition to a fine of 2,700 euros and compensation for the affected party.

The national police officer, who has appealed the ruling, has always defended throughout the process that the complaint is not false and that he and his fellow patrol officer effectively arrested their neighbor near Madrid’s Gran Vía in 2013 when he was carrying a bag with cocaine But he encountered two problems that have cemented his conviction: his neighbor denied it and the agent who supposedly accompanied him in that intervention also denied it. Even, the judges detail, the signature of his patrol partner that appears in the complaint as false as the facts that he recounts.

The sentence includes, in addition to a prison sentence, two years of disqualification from working as a National Police officer. In the event that the sentence is declared final in the future, it could also entail a sanction by the General Directorate of the Police: being finally sentenced for an intentional crime related to the service, as in this case, is considered a very serious offense. serious. This type of fault, according to the disciplinary regime of the National Police Corps, can even lead to definitive separation from service.

Penalties of up to 30,000 euros

The proven facts relate that the convicted police officer decided to prepare the false complaint record to harm his neighbor due to the “conflictive neighborhood relationship” that they had had for years. That complaint prepared by the convicted person was even presented at the Leganitos police station so that the alleged substance passed through the General Directorate of Pharmacy and the facts were left in the hands of the Madrid Government Delegation for a possible sanction based on the Citizen Security Law.

The complaint was processed “in a manner certainly riddled with irregularities,” says the Provincial Court of Madrid, but for unknown reasons it never reached those two agencies, although the information from the complaint was incorporated into the police databases and therefore the victim was never found. exposed to a penalty. The Citizen Security Law considers it a serious offense to have narcotic substances on public roads, as reflected in the false complaint made by the convicted police officer, with penalties ranging from 601 to 30,000 euros.

His objective was to harm him, although finally the existence of those police records went unnoticed until they were discovered during a subsequent conflict two years later. The judges point to three main pieces of evidence to convict him: the victim’s statement, that of the police who deny having been there and having signed the complaint and, finally, the data that the convicted person reflected in the document. He put the address where his neighbor lived in Parla when that was not the address that appeared on his National Identity Document (DNI).

The court also highlights that the court filed the case up to four times until finally an oral trial was opened that ended in conviction. “Only his persistence in defending the thesis of the falsity of the content of the complaint record has made possible a prosecution that had previously encountered up to four dismissal decisions adopted in the investigation phase,” the judges highlight about the processing of this case.