The head of Samoa's police has been charged.
RNZ reports Samoa's Police Commissioner, Fuiavailili Egon Keil, has been served with four criminal charges over an unlawful arrest by the police of a man at the Fugalei market last year.
The Commissioner is facing one charge of unlawful detention, one of perjury, as well as one of providing false statements and disorderly conduct.
A senior lawyer and prosecutor of the National Prosecution office said the Police Commissioner is charged under the Ombudsman Act, Crimes Ordinance Act and the Police offences Act.
The charges were laid last Friday but served to the Commissioner yesterday when he arrived from overseas after two weeks leave.
Source:
Radio New Zealand