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HARARE - The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has become an institution of general corruption and abuse of human rights, an investigation into the operations at Harare Central Police Station over a period of eight days revealed.

The state of the police force is largely the result of poor remuneration for employees as well as the institutionalized culture of human rights abuses emanating from the top of the Mugabe regime.
The recent investigations established that lower and middle-ranked police officers were earning take-home salaries of between $30 000 and $55 000.
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Police 'attack' Mugabe opponen

Police and militants loyal to president Robert Mugabe cracked down on opponents, with police arresting 36 people and doctors reporting scores of cases of presumed assault and torture.

Police accused those arrested of trying to violently enforce a nationwide strike called by Zimbabwe's opposition to demand the results of presidential elections that Mr Mugabe is widely believed to have lost.

Zimbabwe Doctors for Human Rights said it has treated 174 cases of injuries consistent with assault and torture since the vote.

The opposition, human rights groups and diplomats charge that Mr Mugabe has orchestrated a campaign of violence using police and ruling party militants to intimidate perceived opponents since the March 29 election.

The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights reported earlier that two people have been killed and 29 hospitalised with serious injuries in dozens of attacks that it has documented.

A judge, meanwhile, acquitted New York Times correspondent Barry Bearak and British journalist Stephen Bevan of covering the election illegally. Their lawyer said they were now free to leave the country.

Magistrate Gloria Takwunda said the state "failed dismally to prove that there was reasonable suspicion of them practising as journalists". She said state evidence was "inconsistent and unreliable".

The New York Times website said Mr Bearak had left the country.

Zimbabwe has waited 18 days for results from its presidential vote. The electoral commission says it is verifying votes and investigating anomalies, but the opposition says Mr Mugabe is using the delay to rig the outcome.

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he won the March 29 election outright. Independent tallies show Mr Tsvangirai won, but not by enough to prevent a run-off.

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