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A po­lice of­fi­cer has been freed of charges for al­leged­ly as­sault­ing a fel­low of­fi­cer in a dis­agree­ment over his cus­tomer ser­vice skills.

Last week, act­ing Cor­po­ral Lyle Pan­tin was found not guilty of us­ing in­sult­ing lan­guage, re­sist­ing ar­rest and as­sault at the end of his tri­al be­fore Se­nior Mag­is­trate Niko­las Ali.

The charges re­lat­ed to an in­ci­dent at the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion on May 25, 2021.