Bringing abusive police officers to justice remained a difficult task due to the fact that in cases of conflicting statements between the alleged victim and the alleged perpetrator , police testimony usually yielded unquestioned credibility in the eyes of the prosecutor and sometimes also the courts . AI recalled that the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture ( CPT ) expressed concerns in 2006 that complaints of police ill-treatment of suspects had been ignored by prosecutors or judges before whom the suspects had been brought shortly after apprehension .