Police President in trouble

President Klaus has called on the Interior Minister Frantisek Bublan to consider sacking Police President Jiri Kolar for his recent statements concerning phone tapping by the police. In connection with the investigation of an alleged bribery case in which the police tapped the phone of at least one high placed politician, the police president noted that tapping of private phone conversations is a normal police practice which does not breech citizens rights and should not bother them as long as they are innocent. President Klaus said he was shocked by the fact that the Police President should disregard a fundamental freedom guaranteed by the Constitution and expressed the view that he should not be allowed to remain in office.