An attorney on Tuesday claimed some NYPD detectives in the Bronx lied and arrested innocent people over a period of several years, in an effort to meet quotas.

As 1010 WINS� Stan Brooks reported. Peter Tilem, a former New York City prosecutor, called it �testi-lying,� charging that rogue narcotics detectives in the Bronx were arresting innocent people on drug charges and testifying against them in court during a 10-year period starting in the mid-1990s.

Tilem, who is now in private practice, has demanded a full-scale investigation.

�We�re asking for the Police Department and District Attorneys to help in identifying any people who were arrested falsely and may or may not be sitting in jail,� he said.

One former officer, Genaro Morales, testified that he knew of officers who lied under oath in the Bronx narcotics unit when he was there between the mid-1990s and 2006, according to a New York Post report. Morales claimed that detectives were under severe pressure to meet quotas, and talked about one specific incident where he claimed police locked up a man who had done nothing wrong, the newspaper reported.

Both the NYPD and the Bronx District Attorney�s Office refused to comment on the charges.

(Source: WCBSTV)