When Mrs. Maria was taken to a psychiatric hospital, police visited her and took the keys from her apartment. The nurse realized that they had not helped. She called the police. This is how the matter of robbing elderly and died by seven policemen from the second police station in Gliwice came to light. There is an indictment.
On Thursday, the District Prosecutor's Office in Gliwice sent an indictment to the court against seven policemen from the second police station in this city. As the spokeswoman for this prosecutor's office Karina Spruru, the men heard a total of 32 allegations. They concern action in an organized criminal group, exceeding the rights, appropriation and theft of money, rewriting the receipt of cash, awarding financial benefits.
As of 17,000 it got 700 zlotys
– A woman with mental disorders was brought to the police station, which she had a commercial with money with her – Smruż describes one of the crimes accused of policemen.
There was PLN 17,100 in the woman's commercial. Policemen secured cash and took the woman to the hospital, where she soon died. Her son was to get the money, and the procedure required a receipt. – They went to him, they did not say how much money the mother had, they ordered to sign the collection of PLN 710, and as he signed, before he was given a receipt at the police station they added at the front 1, to the back 0 – explains the prosecutor.
In this way they took the rest of PLN 17,100 in their pocket.
They called the victims “Dementors”
According to investigators, such people were victims of police officers from the second police station – elders, lonely, sick, having memory problems. Unbelievable. Policemen could bet them thanks to access to the database of people who need support. They knew about their problems and income. They were to help them.
“They called them” Dementors “in their notes,” says Sprur. From the word dementia. – They regularly visited them to ask if they needed something, fix the tap or shop. That was their modus operandi. One checked whether the full fridge and the other at that time penetrated the remaining rooms and took, which fell into his hands – describes the prosecutor.
According to investigators, the suspects appropriated not only money, but also jewelry or a collection of vinyl records, which they later cleared in a pawnshop. When valuable items belonged to the dead who had no families, then, as the sprung says, “they had no brakes anymore.”
Mrs. Maria and her 300,000
– The case came to light thanks to a nurse from the psychiatric hospital in Toszek – says Sprur.
Maria G. from Gliwice was received there. Policemen from the “two” visited her and took the keys from her apartment. “Under the pretext that Mrs. Maria's husband died and needs his ID card,” Smruż explains.
Mrs. Maria's husband actually died in another hospital, but according to the prosecutor's office for police officers it was just an excuse to rob a woman once again.
But they made a mistake. They did not sign a document in the hospital that they were taking the patient's keys. The nurse reflected that she had no receipt and called the police station.
Smruż does not reveal the details of what happened next, but after this phone nurses The investigation has started.
It was July 2023. In the apartment of Mrs. Maria, investigators found PLN 50,000. Due to his mental health, the woman could not say anything logical about this money. She even claimed that this was not her money. But it turned out that with her husband they meticulously recorded payments and expenses.
– They paid 4,000 from the bank once a month and kept in commercials. After conversion, it turned out that they should have 300,000 at home – says Spruś.
At that time, Mrs. Maria's apartment was six police interventions from the second police station. The cash disappeared gradually. As the prosecutor says, the policemen “treated themselves with money”. Once they were to take 100,000, other times 30,000, then fourteen thousand. “For the fact that the police duty officer sent them there again for intervention, they gave him two thousand,” says Sprur.
“Either we or paramedics”
The duty officer of the other police heard one accusation – for these two thousand from Mrs. Maria's apartment. He did not confess to it. Most of the district went to cooperate with the prosecutor's office. Thanks to this investigator, some facts were established. For example, that the first thefts were already in 2007, and the vast majority in 2020-2023. According to the prosecutor's office, three policemen formed an organized criminal group, the others robbed the inhabitants of “from the thrush”.
How did they translate? – That “either us or paramedics” – reports the prosecutor. – We have not confirmed that rescuers from Gliwice committed such crimes.
Investigators have established several victims. Some will testify. But, as Prruk admits, the actual size of crimes is difficult to estimate due to the health of the victims.
Two policemen who took Mrs. Maria's keys when she was in the hospital was already convicted. The new act of decommissioning also covered them for other similar crimes that were revealed later.
The suspects have already been expelled from service.
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