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Loophole may spare corrupt cop
A LEGAL ambiguity may prevent investigators from the Office of Police Integrity (OPI) from testifying against corrupt police.
The problem lies in an amendment made this year to laws empowering the OPI, according to reports today.
Victoria's chief prosecutor, Gavin Silbert, SC, told the County Court last month that the amendment had left "sufficient doubt as to the ability to call the OPI witnesses as part of the prosecution case", the report said.
The amendment is designed to protect OPI investigators from civil or criminal action unless they act in bad faith, and f... Read more
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The Northern Echo - Darlington
19 August 2006
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Drugs boast officers jailed
TWO corrupt police officers caught bragging about their drug-taking exploits were jailed yesterday.
Raymond Ranson and Andrew Kerr associated with known dealers they had met in nightclubs and gyms.
The bodybuilding pair, who were based at Washington police station, Wearside, dabbled in class A drugs and steriods.
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The officers, who have since resigned from Northumbria Police, were caught when the force Integrity Unit made covert recordings of their conversations.
PC Ranson, an officer with 18 years service, was taped tipping off a friend about the arrest of drugs smuggler Colin Reah - a former stripper known as The Penetrator.
He warned the associate that further investigations could follow and he should make sure his house was in order.
PC Kerr, who had five years service, was taped bragging about a dealer friend shifting £3,000 worth of cocaine over a bank holiday weekend.
The covert recordings captured the officers making reference to "gear", "pills", and "Charlie".
Ranson was also caught offering to be a "test pilot" - by sampling a batch of drugs to assess their quality on behalf of a friend.
When their mobile phones and private diaries were checked, they were packed full of drug dealers' names and contact details.
Ranson, 43, and Kerr, 26, each admitted one charge of misconduct in public office between July 2004 and May last year.
Judge Esmond Faulks jailed Ranson for four years and Kerr for 18 months.
The judge told the pair: "What you did constituted serious abuse of the public trust in your profession. It makes you both corrupt officers."
Defence barrister Michael O'Neill told the court how Ranson, whose wife is expecting his third child, did not profit from his corrupt behaviour.
He said: "This is a case of a front line officer falling in with the wrong crowd as a result of meeting people in clubs and as a result of body building sessions at the gym."
The court heard that Kerr was due to marry his fiance this October.
His barrister, Julian Smith, told the court: "He has let himself down, he has let the force down, he has let his family down. He understands that."
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