Torrance police response to report officer falsified report
Torrance police reacted today to the report that a convicted drug dealer's five-year prison sentencereport that a convicted drug dealer's five-year prison sentence was overturned after prosecutors told a judge that an officer falsified information in an arrest report.
Sgt. Bernard Anderson said police officials learned of the drug case's dismissal when a Los Angeles Times reporter contacted them on Wednesday and told them about the implications of Officer Rehan Nazir's report.
"At this point, the message we want to give out publicly is we're taking this whole incident very seriously," Anderson said. "We are looking into all aspects of it. We are doing all we can to communicate with all parties involved. We are trying to assess the situation."
Anderson said the department was in the early stages of looking into the matter.
"We are putting a lot of resources forth to get an understanding of what was reported to us," Anderson said. "We are taking this very seriously and we are doing everything we can to get our arms around it and figure out what took place and what needs to take place."
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No doubt this problem will be solved in the future by the upcoming California snitch protection act.
;)