Sus­pend­ed po­lice in­spec­tor David Subero, 48, was grant­ed bail for $200,000, when he ap­peared be­fore a Jus­tice of the Peace yes­ter­day, charged with ob­struc­tion of jus­tice.
The mat­ter was ad­journed to June 22nd 2021 and trans­ferred to the Siparia Mag­is­trates’ Court.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports the ac­cused is al­leged to have met with a man on No­vem­ber 24th 2020 in Siparia and had a con­ver­sa­tion with him about a state­ment he pre­vi­ous­ly record­ed with po­lice and in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing an on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion be­ing con­duct­ed against him.

The man re­fused to di­vulge the said in­for­ma­tion as re­quest­ed by the ac­cused. The ac­cused then al­leged­ly told the man in a loud tone that, ‘if he was on the side with those peo­ple he will come af­ter him’. The man en­quired from the ac­cused what he meant by those words as it was his du­ty to pro­vide a state­ment, to which the ac­cused said, ‘who­ev­er com­ing at him, he need­ed to de­fend him­self and if the man was part of them he will be com­ing for him.’

Of­fi­cers of the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau (PSB) in­ves­ti­gat­ed the in­ci­dent. The ac­cused was ar­rest­ed on Tues­day 6th April, 2021 and ad­vice sought from Deputy Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, who gave in­struc­tions to lay the charge of ob­struc­tion of jus­tice.
Subero was charged on that same date by Cpl. (Ag.) Si­mon of the PSB. The ac­cused has three mat­ters pend­ing be­fore the courts.