238 policeman broke the law

Newly released data from the Czech Interior Ministry suggests that last year 238 police officers were found to have committed crimes. This represents a 16 percent increase on the previous year’s figures, and the first rise in officially catalogued police criminality since 2003. According to the data, the most transgressions were committed by the riot, transport, criminal and foreign police. The data also suggests a 12 percent rise in the numbers of police found to have taken bribes – from seven in 2006 to twelve in 2007.