Colombia’s Inspector General has barred four Colombian police from service for ten years for the kidnapping and torture of two police assistants, said a government press release Monday.
According to the statement, the assistants were taken to a site away from police headquarters on August 21, 2006. They were stripped naked, doused in cold water, beaten and choked before being discovered by a police sergeant who immediately reported the incident.
The defendants said they took the assistants from the police station in order to obtain a confession for the theft of equipment from a colonel’s house on August 19, 2006 in the Bogota municipality of Chia.
Members of Colombia’s Judicial and Investigative Police, Lieutenant Julio Ricardo Cifuentes Lozano and patrolmen Jhon Alexander Alvarez Bolaños, Javier Alberto Castro Hernandez, William Murcia Bohorquez and Jean Paul Alarcon Calderon, were barred from service for abduction and torture.