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Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney
20 October 2006
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Union urges Vic police corrupt
Victoria's police union has called on Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon to look into claims that up to two dozen officers linked to corruption remain in the force.
The call follows the allegation by an officer attached to the Ceja Taskforce to look into police corruption that the issue had not been properly dealt with in Victoria.
Detective Sergeant Bill Patten told Fairfax newspapers he was considering resigning from the force after 28 years because of disillusionment at the way the Ceja Taskforce's work was handled.
He said officers who presided over corrupt police were protected from appropriate sanctions and there had been no public accounting for all the drug trafficking, evidence planting and drug use Ceja uncovered.
Police Association secretary Paul Mullett said the claims should be investigated.
"We have a member who is making claims. The chief commissioner should review or investigate these claims," Mr Mullett told AAP.
Victorian Premier Steve Bracks said he had "no doubt" the claims would be taken seriously.
"I think what has been shown really effectively by the successful crime prosecution is that the work that the chief commissioner of police has done, has borne fruit," Mr Bracks said.
"Six months after she came to the job as a chief commissioner she disbanded the drug squad, she set up the Ceja Taskforce, she investigated potential corruption activities and of course now, successful prosecutions have been brought to bear."
Mr Bracks also responded to a report in News Ltd newspapers that corrupt detective Ian Norman Ferguson, imprisoned for drug trafficking, was collecting a pension of almost $1,700 per fortnight.
"One of the things we brought in, in legislation, was the capacity for a judge when sentencing occurs to decide which of superannuation benefits are paid or other benefits are paid," he said.
"That is really the discretion that a judge has under the legislation we put in. In relation to each of those officers they all have different arrangements - some will not apply and some will," Mr Bracks said.
Mr Mullett said the issue of Ferguson's pension was a matter for the emergency services superannuation scheme to decide.
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