NATIONAL NEWS - A Randpark Ridge woman and her boyfriend allegedly endured a horrendous ordeal with Metro police in the late hours of 20 May.
The couple, who preferred to remain anonymous, had just left a charity event at Parkers Comedy in Montecasino at about 12.30am and soon after joining William Nicol Drive on their way to join the highway home, they were apparently pulled over by Metro police officers.
A male and female officer walked over to their BMW cabriolet, and the male officer went straight to the driver’s window while the female officer stood at the passenger window where the woman was sitting. The male officer demanded a driver’s licence from the man and ordered him to get out of the car.
“We then demanded to see their Metro police licences as we were not sure they were genuine officers,” said the woman. “They became aggressive and abusive, with the female officer threatening to breathalyse me.”
She told the woman officer that she did not understand why she wanted to breathalyse her as she was not driving the vehicle. “I then insisted they produce their licences as I explained a previous encounter with bogus members of the police.
“The male officer got physical and pulled my boyfriend out of the car, locked him in the back of their van and jumped into our BMW and drove off with me, and other officers followed with my boyfriend in the back of the van.
“I kept asking where we were going, but instead one of them put her hands over my face so I would not see the direction we were heading in. “We ended up in a fenced-off bushy place with an old building where they ordered me to jump out of the car, locked it and took the keys and left me beside the vehicle and drove off with my boyfriend,” she said.
While she was trying to figure out where she was, they pulled up again with her boyfriend in the van and parked a distance away from the couple’s car. “I could hear my boyfriend screaming, wanting to know if I was okay and he said they were taking him to the cop shop.
A male and female officer walked over to their BMW cabriolet, and the male officer went straight to the driver’s window while the female officer stood at the passenger window where the woman was sitting. The male officer demanded a driver’s licence from the man and ordered him to get out of the car.
“We then demanded to see their Metro police licences as we were not sure they were genuine officers,” said the woman. “They became aggressive and abusive, with the female officer threatening to breathalyse me.”
She told the woman officer that she did not understand why she wanted to breathalyse her as she was not driving the vehicle. “I then insisted they produce their licences as I explained a previous encounter with bogus members of the police.
“The male officer got physical and pulled my boyfriend out of the car, locked him in the back of their van and jumped into our BMW and drove off with me, and other officers followed with my boyfriend in the back of the van.
“I kept asking where we were going, but instead one of them put her hands over my face so I would not see the direction we were heading in. “We ended up in a fenced-off bushy place with an old building where they ordered me to jump out of the car, locked it and took the keys and left me beside the vehicle and drove off with my boyfriend,” she said.
While she was trying to figure out where she was, they pulled up again with her boyfriend in the van and parked a distance away from the couple’s car. “I could hear my boyfriend screaming, wanting to know if I was okay and he said they were taking him to the cop shop.
