Lithuanian police protest against intimidation of officers

As people were gathering in the Independence Square outside the parliament for the Independence Day celebration, 15 police officers without their uniforms glued duct tape over their mouths.

They held slogans, saying that police officers were entitled to beliefs and free expression of the beliefs, as well as that the trade unions were not something bad. They held a stretcher with a box, saying “a social friend.”

“People are persecuted for an opinion and for criticism, they are persecuted for operations in the trade union. On Friday, there was a press release, saying that the trade union was a threat to national security,” said Roma Katinienė, one of the organizers of the action and the chairperson of the Lithuanian Police Trade Union.

In her words, police officers holding a different opinion are dubbed by their superiors as disloyal.

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Police Commissioner General Linas Pernavas has categorically dismissed the accusations on intimidation of officers.

“You can see for yourselves the amount of criticism against police chiefs, we definitely do not persecute the people who criticize us. I am definitely not aware of such facts,” the police chief told journalists at the parliament on Sunday.

Pernavas, in his turn, criticized police trade unions, saying they only leveled criticism but never came up with constructive proposals.

Karolis Vaitkevičius, spokesman for the interior minister, told BNS the ministry was not aware of persecution of police officers. Vaitkevicius urged trade unions to share such information in these cases, pledging to respond.

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