Four employees of the Ciocana Police Commissariat were sentenced to five years in jail, but put on probation of a three-year period for use of torture. They were also deprived of the right to hold posts at the Ministry of the Interior during three years, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to a communiqué from the Prosecutor General’s Office, the sentence was passed by the Ciocana district court. But it acquitted two of the three police officers on the second count – abuse of power. The prosecutors presented evidence showing that in the morning of April 10, 2009, two of the culprits went to the Vocational Lyceum No. 1, where they abusively handcuffed two students suspected of taking part in the devastation of the Parliament and Presidential Buildings and took them to the Ciocana Commissariat. They illegally held them there for five hours. Meanwhile, the victims were beaten, tortured, threatened and forced to confess that they took part in the April 7, 2009 public disorder and devastation acts. As many as 108 complaints about the abuses committed by the police against protesters have been examined after the April 2009 events. There were started 58 legal cases. 27 cases against police officers were sent to court and are being tried. Until now, the courts have convicted nine police officers and acquitted 18.