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HYDERABAD: Opposition parties forced the State Government on Thursday to suspend the Inspector and Sub-Inspector of Osmania University police station here for their high-handedness towards a group of Telangana activists on the campus on Wednesday.
The incident rocked the Assembly which was adjourned 90 minutes ahead of schedule as placard-waving members of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) stalled proceedings from the start demanding suspension of the police officers. The Government's response came amid high drama and much after it received all-round flak for dragging its feet. ... Read more
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03 September 2006
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Police 'could face legal actio
The Victorian Opposition says the police force is risking legal action by not destroying fingerprints.
Under the Crimes Act, police have to destroy all fingerprints taken from people who are found not guilty of a crime.
Opposition police spokesman Kim Wells says leaked documents show the Fingerprint Branch has a backlog of 400,000 prints, most of them taken between 1994 and 1998.
Mr Wells says Police Minister Tim Holding needs to do something about staff numbers in the Fingerprint Branch.
"This is a real mess and to have to take police off investigating crime in order to destroy the backlog of fingerprints, is a nonsense," he said.
"So we need an explanation of how he is going to sort out this real mess that we have, because we would expect the police force to abide by the law and they're simply not."
He says the legal implications mean the work must be done sooner.
"But the crimes act goes even further because it states that the Chief Commissioner is liable if she does not destroy fingerprints, and this could work out to be a thousand dollars, per fingerprint not destroyed."
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