One-week unpaid suspension of police officer upheld

ACOM/180/1996Cour de justice / Chambre administrative22 mai 1996Confirmed

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Résumé Omnilex

A police officer was disciplined for having slapped a person who was handcuffed with hands behind the back. The disciplinary authority imposed a one-week suspension without pay. The decision confirms this sanction under LPOL.26, treating the conduct as sufficiently serious to justify a short unpaid suspension.

Regeste Omnilex

LPOL.26; disciplinary sanction of a police officer for violent conduct toward a restrained person; a one-week unpaid suspension is justified where the officer slaps a person already handcuffed with hands behind the back. Such conduct breaches the special duties of restraint and professionalism incumbent on police officers and may be sanctioned by a short suspension without pay when the circumstances do not require a more severe penalty.

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Descripteurs

POLICE; MESURE DISCIPLINAIRE; SALAIRE; SUSPENSION DANS LA PROFESSION

Normes

LPOL.26

Résumé

Suspension pour une durée d'une semaine sans traitement d'un policier, pour avoir gifflé une personne qui était menotté dans le dos.

Mots-clés

disciplinary measurepolicesuspensionsalaryviolencerestraint

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Questions juridiques clés extraites par Omnilex

Question juridique clé

Whether the disciplinary suspension of a police officer for slapping a handcuffed person was justified under LPOL.26.

Solution extraite

The one-week suspension without pay was upheld as a disciplinary measure.

Motifs extraits

The officer's conduct toward a restrained person constituted conduct serious enough to justify a short unpaid suspension under the police disciplinary rules.

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