Former Brno police officer Pavel Trenz, who was sentenced to two years in prison in 2007 for extortion and abusing the powers of a public official, is back at work with the Brno police force, this time as a civilian employee. Trenz and fellow officer Pavel Kypr were sentenced for beating and brutalizing a 14-year-old Romani boy. Czech Television reported the story today on their news programming.
The Brno City Police took Trenz back even though civilian employees are supposed to have clean criminal records. Police director Daniel Šíma has made an exception in Trenz’s case, Czech Television reports.
Trenz is now assisting with training new officers, including training rookies and his former colleagues in self-defense. "He should not have behaved that way as an officer. There was no excuse for it. However, I took his positives into consideration when he applied to return. During the last year and a half there have been no problems with him,” Šíma said. Trenz told Czech Television that “this is all right, once a man has served his sentence there is no reason to knock him down and leave him in the mud.”
Mayor of Brno Roman Onderka (ČSSD) said he would investigate. "If regulations have been violated, we will take action,” he said.
In June 2006, Trenz wanted to revenge himself on a group of Romani teenagers who had attacked and robbed his 13-year-old son on náměstí Svobody in Brno. He and fellow officer Pavel Kypr decided to take justice into their own hands. The next day, while on duty, they tracked down two Romani boys whom they suspected of participating in the attack. They turned one the boys out of a car in Cejl street and took the other one into the forest between the Útěchov and Soběšice districts.
According to the verdict, Trenz beat the boy up. After the youth tried to run away, Trenz knocked him to the ground, held an unloaded gun to his temple and left eye, and pulled the trigger. Kypr then forced the boy’s mouth open and together they forced the weapon into his mouth, demanding he tell them the names of the other muggers. When they did not succeed in forcing a confession from him, they let him go.
The Municipal Court in Brno originally sentenced both men to two years in prison, to be served after five years of parole. The verdict was appealed by both sides, and the Regional Court increased the sentence on appeal. State Prosecutor Zdeněk Adámek objected that parole should not be granted for a crime committed by on-duty police officers. "No matter what preceded the crime, it is not possible to take justice into one’s own hands,” Judge Markéta Jirsová said during sentencing. The Supreme Court upheld the two-year prison sentence in 2007.
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