Two police officers who were charged after they went to the rescue of a colleague being beaten by undercover detectives were freed in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court on Thursday.
Those freed of charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice and assault at common-law are District Constable Georgia Nicholas and Constable Jhohano Walters of the Linstead Police Station in St Catherine.
When the matter came up before Resident Magistrate Simone Maddix, attorney-at-law Dale Staple told the court that for the last three years the case had been before the courts, but was yet to be tried.
Staple asked the resident magistrate that the matter either be tried or his clients set free.
He said that his clients had not earned any pay since charges were brought against them, while the investigators were dragging their feet.
Before dismissing the case, RM Maddix agreed that more than reasonable time had elapsed for the case to have been tried.
Allegation are about 4:30 p.m. on June 10, 2007, Walters and Nicholas were on duty at the Linstead Police Station when they received a report that Constable Andrez Johnson, who was dressed in uniform, was being beaten.
The court heard, that the accused beaters were detectives who had set up a sting operation and had held Johnson after it was alleged that he collected money from a motorist. It is said that Walters and Nicholas came to Johnson's rescue.
Johnson was freed of breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act two years ago.