MOSCOW, April 21 (UPI) -- Four people, including a police officer, were arrested in Moscow Sunday for allegedly assaulting a road police inspector, officials said.
The alleged incident happened just after midnight on Sunday, the press service of the Moscow main department of the Russian Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass.
"The road police inspectors of the North-Western Administrative District of Moscow have made an attempt to detain a car VAZ 211440 at about 12:35 [a.m.] Moscow time on April 21 on the Marshal Zhukov Avenue. The driver of the car did not fulfill lawful demands of the road police and kept on driving. The road police were chasing down the car and stopped it at the exit to the Moscow Ring Road," the press service reported.
Then, as the police inspector was talking to the driver of the vehicle, a car carrying three other people showed up at the scene, the press service said.
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"A car with three people inside came to the road police post, when the road policeman was making administrative protocols. They asked the road policeman to release the driver without an administrative protocol, but the road policeman refused to them, they were acting aggressively and they together with the detainee were beating the road policeman," the press service reported.
The victim managed to detain all four of the alleged attackers and bring them to a police station.
"A police sergeant, who works in the OMON riot police task force in Moscow, was among the detainees. The injured road policeman turned for medical aid and was permitted to go home after that," the police press service said.
