Police ignored rape suspect even when given his mobile phone number

A twenty-year-old woman from Chojnice who was raped in August this year reported to the police that she recently recognized the man who had raped her. Despite precise information including a description of the man, a sketch, and even his mobile telephone number, the police officers investigating the case did not show much interest in the incident and did not even bother to inform the prosecutor's office about the new information. Moreover, they arbitrarily decided that the suspect was not guilty without even attempting to use the drawing in a line-up of suspects . At the beginning of November, the woman was informed that her case had been dropped since no suspects had been positively identified as the criminal. After the intervention of a journalist from Gazeta Wyborcza, who together with the victim visited the police station in question, regional police authorities decided an inquiry would be launched to clear the matter. Fifteen minutes after the visit, the owner of the mobile telephone with the number indicated by the woman was arrested. Unfortunately, the man turned out not to be the rapist, leaving the embittered victim wondering whether there is any chance that two months after she gave the telephone number to the police they might be able to trace the man. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.6)