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Inaugurating the official website of the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB), Deputy Chief Minister R.R. Patil expressed the need to have more officers with high integrity to work in the Anti Corruption Department in order to combat corruption.
The website which will enable the common man to lodge online complaints with ACB was inaugurated as part of the ACB�s �Vigilance Awareness Week� 2005 between November 7 and 12.
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Union fails to block anti-corr

VICTORIA'S powerful police union has been handed a humiliating legal defeat after failing in a bid to stop a former corruption investigator being appointed to a country police station.
The Victorian Supreme Court yesterday dismissed a union-backed attempt to block former Ceja taskforce investigator Sergeant Bill Patten taking a senior position at the Gisborne Criminal Investigation Unit.

Sergeant Patten was appointed to the position under a special clause of the Police Regulation Act designed to re-integrate corruption investigators into the police force.

He said yesterday he had been singled out by the association because of his role as a corruption investigator.

"I have no doubt I have been gone after because of a boys' club operating on the Police Association executive," Sergeant Patten said.

"Me and a number of other officers have been targeted because of our role as corruption investigator and in particular because of our work on the Ceja taskforce."

The Ceja taskforce was formed in late 2001 to investigate allegations of corruption involving members of the now disgraced drug squad.

The move to block the appointment by two other officers was dismissed by Victorian Supreme Court judge Katherine Williams yesterday.

Sergeant Patten has been an outspoken critic of Victoria Police's handling of corruption.

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