Deputy Chief of Police and Police Headquarters spokesman Ramazan Er, at a weekly meeting, said necessary investigations had begun about those officers who took their duties too far.
Beating the detained journalist up
Reporter Hacaloglu was detained by police as he was covering a press statement at the Taksim Square by the members of the Confederation of Revolutionary Laborers' Union (DISK). He was roughed up as he was being detained and was kept under detention for two hours.
A group of police officers, including a deputy police chief, beat the journalist up at the Beyoglu police station.
The reporter is said to have been detained as he was watching the police, wearing civilian clothes, rough up a member of the group after the press statement.
Police: It was not a detention
In a statement about the incident, police said: "Hacaloglu was not detained, he was received as a guest at the police station."
According to statistics prepared by the Human Rights Office of the Prime Ministry, people in January complained most about the police. (EO/BB/EA/NM)
