Forty one year old Sergeant Julio Shal has been charged for the murder of 27 year old Tyson Rodriguez after the family alleges that Rodriguez was brutally beaten and killed. The post mortem results found that Rodriguez died as a result of suffocating on sand. However, the initial version of the story was that Rodriguez drowned after jumping out of a moving police mobile and into the nearby seawaters. The theory has been disproved by the autopsy and a result Sergeant Shall who was the second in command of the Placencia Police Department was charged. The family believes that two more police officers who were allegedly involved in the incident. These officers corroborated the official police report issued. Assistant Commissioner of Police, Miguel Segura updated the media.
MIGUEL SEGURA
“The criminal aspect we are working with the DPP and DPP will guide us as to how to continue the proceedings. Internally similarly after we have looked at the criminal, we will deal with our internal aspects but first and foremost the closure that the family feels and the evidence that meet the threshold in the court of law, the DPP is there to assist us but internally we are investigating that case and we would proceed based on the findings.”
REPORTER
“But I am speaking specifically to the fact that the officers, it would seem from an outsider, that they have tried to protect Sergeant Shall by providing evidence which are in line with what he had said. So given that fact are you guys looking at what they have told you for disciplinary purposes as well against these officers if that evidence is shown to be accurate?”
MIGUEL SEGURA
“You see the difference between our disciplinary code, internal issues and the criminal, in the criminal aspect you have to prove beyond reasonable doubt; internally, the threshold for that is more minimal that once we could have that evidence and prove it that our police act was violated we will proceed but we are guided by what is available because emotions is one thing but once it is in black and white and it is admissible either internally or externally we will proceed. There is no two ways about it. I am not privileged to the entire file itself because investigator Mr. Romero we just had a briefing more or less what they were doing but the content of that file is at the DPP office. So, to be honest I don’t have the sufficient word per say what is in that; I did not read that file.”
Assistant Commissioner of Police, Miguel Segura.
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