The Police Commissioner’s failure in 2010 to submit his reports to the Police Com-plaints Authority (PCA) has resulted in 81 complaints being stalled according to the authority’s recently released annual report, which also highlighted indisciplined behaviour by some ranks.
The report, which was tabled during last week’s sitting of the National Assembly, said that for 2010, the authority received a total of 238 written complaints but of these only 115 reports were submitted by the Commis-sioner of Police. These matters have since been concluded, the report said, adding that 81 other matter were still pending, while the other 42 complaints were rejected.
According to the report, there were nine cases of alleged unlawful killings [committed by the police],” and the reports in respect of these matters were received by the police commissioner. The comments of
