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Investigation Completed into Corruption in Greece Police Department
GREECE, NY: The head investigator into corruption in the Greece Police Department announced "mission accomplished" Friday afternoon.
Former Deputy State Police Superintendent Joseph Loszynski was hired to look into accusations of wrongdoing in the department.
Loszynski released his final report Friday and said he referred several cases to the DA's office for prosecution.... Read more
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New Orleans mayor asks feds to
The new mayor of New Orleans has asked the Justice Department to review the city's embattled police department.
In a letter sent Wednesday, Mayor Mitch Landrieu asked Attorney General Eric Holder to assign a team from the department's civil rights division to help the city address and prevent police misconduct.
"I have inherited... Read more
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Australia: Ombudsman refuses O
THE Victorian Ombudsman's office has decided against initiating any investigations into Victoria Police and the conduct of the Office of Police Integrity, despite the OPI having been described as illegal, corrupt and "reprehensible" by one of the state's leading defence lawyers.
THE Victorian Ombudsman's office has decided against initiating any investigations... Read more
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UK: IPCC watchdog under attack
The police complaints watchdog should stop employing retired officers to investigate the public’s concerns about their former forces.
A committee of MPs said it was shocked that the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) routinely employed former police officers as investigators.
“Public confidence in the impartiality of the IPCC is bound to... Read more
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Australia: Brave cop in sack f
A POLICE hero who took a bullet for the community has been forced to spend more than $300,000 in a legal battle to clear his name.
The Office of Police Integrity, which sacked Valour Award winner John Kapetanovski, has been found to have acted unfairly by dismissing him.
The OPI has also... Read more
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Victorian police watchdog shel
MORE than 20 complaints of racism by Victorian police, including allegations of criminal behaviour, were made to the Office of Police Integrity by lawyers acting for young African Australians between 2006 and 2009.
Only one has been investigated by the OPI and several resulted in charges being laid by police against... Read more
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Australia: Police discriminati
A survey of African residents in Melbourne has prompted more allegations of racism in Victoria, this time against the police.
The report by a coalition of Melbourne legal centres claims discriminatory treatment of African youths by police has led to increased tensions.
One such claim of discrimination comes from Ethiopian man Daniel Haile-Michael,... Read more
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UK: Rape report: 'If the polic
The care and support of rape victims should be given greater priority, according to a review of how cases are handled. One young woman's experience of the system shows there is much still to be done.
When Sally Freeman's 15-year-old daughter told her she had been violently raped, she had hoped justice... Read more
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Montreal protesters fear cops'
MONTREAL – A group that organizes an annual and controversial anti-police brutality march that last year was the scene of more than 200 arrests says it had nothing do with an attack by vandals early yesterday that left 11 Montreal police squad cars smashed and a neighbourhood police station splashed with... Read more
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Bad boys: why rookie police ar
ROOKIE police officers in NSW are doing more than their fair share when it comes to misbehaving, a study has found.
Probationary constables - those in their first year - make up 7 per cent of the force but are responsible for almost 12 per cent of allegations of off-duty misconduct.
The research... Read more
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Report highlights NSW cops' mi
They pledge to serve and protect but NSW police officers sometimes stray outside the law when not in uniform, a report shows.
Men, senior constables, and those aged in their late 30s are the most common offenders, a research paper into off-duty officer misconduct released by the Police Integrity Commission (PIC) has... Read more
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'Poor judgment' leads to 2 cop
The Quebec Police Ethics Commission has ordered that two police officers be suspended without pay following an accident that injured two Montreal women.
Sûreté du Québec Constable Stéphane Sasseville was suspended for 30 days for the charges involving each woman, to be served concurrently, for not using his patrol car with care... Read more
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Portland officials call for ov
The city auditor and Commissioner Randy Leonard, faced with growing community demands for accountability after controversial police shootings and a death in police custody that's taken three years to investigate, want to give Portland's police oversight division the muscle they say it needs to be effective.
Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade and... Read more
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Montreal officer suspended for
The Police Ethics Commission has a suspended a Montreal police officer for five days without pay for an "inadequate and incomplete" investigation into a collision involving an SQ cruiser in 2004.
Martin Couture will appeal the suspension.
The ethics commission had criticized Couture's investigation into the Nov. 27, 2004 collision at the corner... Read more
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Ethics committee won't revise
The Police Ethics Committee has rejected a bid to revise a decision by a police ethics commissioner clearing a Montreal police officer of any wrongdoing when Mohamed Anas Bennis, 25, was fatally shot in 2005.
At the committee’s request, commissioner Nathalie Haccoun (now a municipal court judge) called on an expert from... Read more
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Abandoned Baby Dies From Cold
Police in central England left an abandoned baby they thought was dead in a freezing street for up to an hour Sunday before realizing he was still alive.
The newborn child was found wrapped in a blanket in a bag left outside a mosque in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent. A message read 'Please help... Read more
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Top cop orders probe on OPI
Senior Victorian police are investigating the Office of Police Integrity - the body charged with probing allegations against police - over claims that OPI investigators tampered with vital evidence in an anti-corruption ''sting''.
In an unprecedented role switch, Chief Commissioner Simon Overland has ordered his office to look into allegations that OPI... Read more
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Canada: RCMP needs civilian ov
Senator Colin Kenny and his Liberal colleagues on the disbanded national security committee are having the last word on RCMP reform. The question is, will anyone listen?
The Liberal senators, about to lose their majority when Parliament resumes after a two-month prorogation, have taken a final opportunity to publish a position paper... Read more
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OPI in new police blunder
THE Office of Police Integrity has admitted it wrongly criticised the state surveillance squad in a report tabled in Parliament.
It has been forced to retable the February report after embarrassing and damaging errors were discovered.
The latest OPI mistake comes after the Herald Sun revealed last week that a second... Read more
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Slap for police chief by over
VICTORIA'S police watchdog has rebuked Chief Commissioner Simon Overland for failing to act on ''overwhelming'' evidence that Paul Mullett bullied some of his former police association colleagues more than four years ago.
Last November Office of Police Integrity chief Michael Strong wrote to Mr Overland to raise concerns about his handling of... Read more
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Vigilance is needed to maintai
SEX, drugs, nightclubs and allegations of misbehaving police - The Courier Mail's recent revelations conjure a sense of deja vu for anyone who recalls Queensland in the pre-Fitzgerald 1980s.
Then the focus was on Fortitude Valley. Now "sin city" has shifted to the Gold Coast. When combined with revelations from the Crime... Read more
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Australia: Real leadership mea
Two complex and intriguing issues have unintentionally revealed how the Brumby government responds when uncomfortable truths are exposed. The first is the Office of Police Integrity (OPI), set up to investigate police corruption. The second is violence against Indians in Melbourne. The issues are distinct in many ways, but in both... Read more
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Secret report recommends drug
A previously secret report by Queensland's corruption watchdog recommends improved ethics education, possible random drug testing of all police and swifter disciplinary action.
Police Minister Neil Roberts today tabled in Parliament a summary of recommendations from a Crime and Misconduct Commission report tackling police misconduct, codenamed Project Grinspoon.
While the report remains... Read more
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UK: Four years in jail for top
Britain's highest-ranking Asian police officer was jailed for four years yesterday after being convicted of falsely arresting a man and then inventing a claim of assault against him.
After a month-long trial, it took a jury just two hours to convict Ali Dizaei, a commander in charge of 5,000 officers across... Read more
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CMC asked to probe alleged pol
POLICE crash tackled, kneed and punched an Aboriginal man with excessive force before falsely charging him and trying to cover it up, a judge ruled.
The Crime and Misconduct Commission have been asked to investigate alleged police misconduct and brutality in Cape York after the damning court judgment.
The family of Patrick Darren... Read more
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CMC won't release report into
The Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) says it will not publicly release a confidential 2008 report into Queensland Police Service (QPS) officer misconduct on the Gold Coast.
Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson yesterday confirmed the QPS received a report from the CMC two years ago that was sparked by an investigation involving... Read more
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Stop corruption before it star
QUEENSLAND Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson responded to news police stations were raided and officers interrogated in an investigation into Gold Coast drug crime by saying the region "has been an area of concern for more than 10 years". So why didn't he act long before the Crime and Misconduct Commission raids... Read more
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Watchdog slams police failure
VICTORIA Police's failure to fix known and ''significant information security risks'' contributed to the leak of police surveillance files to underworld bosses and suspected gangland killers, according to a report by the state's police watchdog.
The Office of Police Integrity's inquiry into problems at the State Surveillance Unit, released yesterday, also revealed... Read more
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Australia: Ex Vic top cop deni
Former Victorian assistant police commissioner Noel Ashby has formally pleaded not guilty to 11 perjury charges.
Ashby, 53, entered the pleas during a hearing at the Victorian Supreme Court on Monday.
The charges allege he lied under oath while giving answers to hearings by the police watchdog, the Office of Police Integrity, in... Read more
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UK: Police investigated over a
Three Leicestershire police officers are under investigation as part of an inquiry into the deaths of a mother and daughter abused by youths.
Fiona Pilkington, of Barwell, killed herself and daughter Francecca Hardwick in a burning car in October 2007.
At the inquest into their deaths a jury ruled the actions of... Read more
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