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The court sentenced Mohammed Mahmud Abdul Mun'em in absentia for killing 20 protesters and wounding 15 more on Jan. 28, a day when hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Egypt.
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Anger as police get the go-ahe
POLICE officers who have to retire early after being injured on duty say they are furious that new regulations will allow their former force to spy on them.
Under a recently introduced set of guidelines brought in by South Wales Police, it is permissible for medically retired officers to be placed under surveillance to see whether their condition has improved.
The guidelines state: “The use of surveillance will be considered ... when there are reasonable grounds to suspect that a medically retired officer is no longer ‘permanently disabled from performing the ordinary duties of a member of the police force’ as defined in the Police Pension Regulations.”
The guidelines also say that serving police officers may be kept under surveillance when they are on sick leave to establish whether they are really fit for work.
Former rugby player Mark Pugh, whose police career ended after he was severely traumatised following the 2002 clash between Cardiff City and Leeds United fans, won a victory last year against South Wales Police, which had kept him under surveillance for months.
The Police Medical Appeal Board (PMAB) was highly critical of the police authority, which had claimed he was not entitled to a disability pension.
Material disclosed to Mr Pugh showed that 11 officers from South Wales Police and the neighbouring Dyfed-Powys force were used to spy on him for months in an operation estimated to have cost more than £100,000.
The Appeal Board adjudication said video evidence of him coaching amateur rugby players was irrelevant and that there was overwhelming evidence that backed his claim for a disability pension.
Roger Duffy, secretary of the Cardiff-based campaign group Roappa (Retired Officers Against Police Pension Abuse), said: “Mark Pugh’s case is the only one we are aware of in which surveillance has been used. In his case, of course, he was spied on while his case was being assessed and before he was retired.
“The PMAB decided the whole surveillance exercise was evidentially useless and effectively a total waste of public money. It is doctors who must decide whether an injury-on-duty award needs to be changed, not officers with a video camera,
“How will the public think about police being diverted from their core duties fighting crime to spy on their retired colleagues? And what sort of message does it send to officers who put their health at risk in the line of duty? This is nothing more than an attempted cost-saving exercise that will in fact cost a huge amount of money.”
Superintendent Gary Osborne, of South Wales Police Professional Standards Department, said: “Officers who retire on ill health grounds as a result of an injury received in the execution of their duty, are entitled to an Injury on Duty (IOD) award.
“This award is given in addition to their normal police pension and is to compensate the retired former officers for their lack of earnings capability as a police officer, or in other employment.
“These awards are subject to regular review which is necessary to evaluate changes in the medical condition that forced the officer to retire, and may result in a former officer’s IOD award being either increased or decreased according to deterioration or improvements in their condition.
“When a former officer does not declare a marked improvement in their earnings capability despite being given the opportunity at review, South Wales Police will rightly investigate whether public funds are being wrongly claimed.
“South Wales Police accept that former officers are not subject of Police Misconduct Regulations. However, false representation of a medical condition or earnings capability in order to make a personal financial gain is clearly a fraudulent act and therefore a criminal offence.
“In these circumstances, any surveillance activity would be conducted in accordance with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
“There is no intention to prevent former officers being paid the injury award to which they are entitled. However, there are occasions when a very small number of individuals are believed to have abused these entitlements.”
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