PROBE INTO ACTS OF SARAJEVO POLICE CONDUCTED BY IPTF

SARAJEVO, June 24 (Hina) - Investigators of international police in Bosnia-Herzegovina (IPTF) have conducted a thorough probe to check a large number of complaints about Sarajevo Canton police's abuse of detained persons, and established that most of complaints were groundless. A Briton, Derek Cake, who led the investigators' team, said on Tuesday in the Bosnian capital that they had checked all 29 complaints submitted since the beginning of 1997. Only in seven cases police overstepped their authority when they used unnecessary physical force. The investigator Cake said that police had never harassed the arrested persons because of their ethnic origins. The canton interior ministry has been asked to take disciplinary action against responsible policemen. (hina) jn mš 241519 MET jun 97