Police complaints on the rise in Greenland

SIKU CIRCUMPOLAR NEWS SERVICE

Greenlanders do not seem happy with their police force’s performance in the past year, national radio news channel DR reported.

Greenland’s police complaint commission said complaints over police conduct had doubled compared with 2003.

The commission received 31 new reports last year, some of them quite serious. The increase is mostly due to criminal cases against police officers and episodes of prisoners suffering harm in police custody.

One case included a police officer who was charged with having a sexual relationship with a child under 15.