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Internal sacking, suspension s
VICTORIA'S powerful police corruption watchdog is facing its own integrity problems, with one officer sacked and another suspended after alleged misconduct.
An Office of Police Integrity investigator recently sacked for abandoning his workplace has alleged he was forced to sign false statutory declarations at the OPI to cover up dubious expense claims ¡ª acts which potentially involve offences of perjury and obtaining financial advantage by deception.
The sacking and suspension come after concerns were raised internally at the OPI by a small number of staff about the handling... Read more
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17 October 2006
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Iraq removes key police comman
BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraq's Shiite-dominated Interior Ministry said Tuesday it had removed two officers in charge of commando units as part of its restructuring plan of the national police force.
Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, the ministry's spokesman, said the two officers — Maj. Gen. Rashid Filah and Maj. Gen. Mahdi Sabbih — were transferred from their posts but denied their removal was a demotion or had anything to do with widespread allegations that police commandos were involved in some of the violence directed against Sunni Arabs.
"The leadership of the national police was changed to restructure the Interior Ministry," said Khalaf, flanked by Filah and Sabbih in business suits, rather than the camouflage fatigues associated with Iraq's police commandos.
"Because of their sacrifices and their experience, both of these leaders were named to high-ranking posts," the spokesman said.
Khalaf said the restructuring of the ministry, which is in charge of the police, would touch all departments and may result in the creation of new ones. He did not elaborate.
The ministry said last week it had fired 3,000 employees accused of corruption or rights abuses and that it intended to change top commanders as part of a restructuring plan designed to bolster its ability to combat violence. It said a total of 600 from the 3,000 personnel fired will face prosecution.
Shiite militias linked to religious parties in the government are widely thought to have infiltrated the country's police force. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, himself a Shiite, pledged this week to crack down on the militias.
"The state and the militias cannot coexist," he said in a nationally broadcast address Sunday. "Arms can only be in the hands of the government and no one has the right to be above the law," he said.
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