The Eastern Finland Police Department will not launch a preliminary criminal investigation into the death of a man in police custody last year, Friday announced.
According to the department, there is no reason to suspect that a man has died a crime.
A 30-year-old man died in custody at the Southeast Kotka City Police Station in September 2020.
According to police, the man was arrested in Kotka on September 5 after announcing that he was behaving threateningly. The man was in handcuffs and had been set during the arrest, police said.
A police statement issued last year after his death found that after his arrest, he was taken to a cell reserved for hops, where he was later found dead.
According to the Eastern Finnish police, there was no reason to suspect the police officers who had arrested the two men for the abuses.
According to pictures taken from the surveillance cameras of the Kotka police station, the man walked without help, the police of Eastern Finland said. There was nothing unusual about the situation that could have given the police officers present cause for concern, the department said.
The first investigation into the man’s death was handled by the Eastern Finland Police Department, to which the Kotka unit belongs.