Police should know better
Posted by costas on Friday, 22 February 2013CYPRUS MAIL - 21 FEB 2013By Poly PentalidesTHE OMBUDSWOMAN has issued a guideline to police to remedy the lack of understanding about appropriate action when holding trans people in detention, following a complaint by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that reported a trans woman had been kept in men’s holding cells. The woman was arrested on suspicion of running a brothel in January but “lacking any instructions” police placed her alone, in an empty holding block reserved for minor boys. She has since been released, but the office of the Ombudswoman, Eliza Savvidou, iss