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Six officers from the Metropolitan Police Service have been suspended or placed on restricted duty after being accused of mistreating suspects during a drug-related raid last November, the police said on Wednesday.
The police would not give details about what the officers, from Enfield, in north London, are alleged to have done.
Using the term “waterboarding,” several British newspapers reported that the charges included dunking the suspects’ heads in buckets of water to try to extract information.
That description of waterboarding is different from the brutal technique known as waterboarding that has inspired criticism of the United States government for its use in antiterrorism investigations.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Service said he could not comment on the reports.
The allegations were brought to the attention of the police by an unidentified employee of the department. They are being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission, which looks at police misconduct, and could result in criminal charges.
The police called the allegations serious and said they raised “real concern.”In a statement, the police said that “the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards received information from a Metropolitan Police Service employee which raised concerns about the conduct of a small number of officers” during an operation in November.
The police also said that the commander of the Enfield force had been moved to a new job in Scotland Yard and would be working on strategy and policy issues.
The complaints commission said that the allegations came to light as part of an internal investigation by the police into corruption in Enfield’s crime squad after the November operation. Among the charges, The Evening Standard reported, were that the officers fabricated evidence and stole items like iPods and television sets from the suspects.
Five people were arrested and charged with smuggling and possessing drugs after the operation. But the charges against them were dropped earlier this year when prosecutors said that “it would not be in the public interest” to proceed.
It is an awkward time for the London police. Scotland Yard’s reputation has already been damaged by allegations of police brutality stemming from police behavior at protests during the Group of 20 summit meeting in April. One man, a 47-year-old newspaper vendor who was trying to get home during the protests, collapsed and died after being struck and shoved to the ground by a police officer.
Since April, 276 people have made formal complaints to the commission about police behavior during the protests, mostly involving allegations of excessive force. The commission has begun full investigations into five of those complaints, including one that alleged that the police — whose initial claims to have had no contact with the newspaper vendor, Ian Tomlinson, were contradicted by video taken at the time — lied and tried to cover up the episode.
The commission said that it had referred 131 of the complaints to the police and instructed them to report back if, for instance, the complaints involved allegations against identifiable officers or injuries. So far, it said, 52 of those cases were being investigated by the police under the commission’s supervision.
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