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The arrest was made following a complaint filed by a transport company owner.
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04 December 2005
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Officers cheated in police exa
POLICE officers accused of cheating during their senior constable exam were initially allowed to retain their successful results, an internal police document shows.
The officers were later charged under police regulations with "failure to act with honesty and integrity by colluding with others in an examination".
A superintendent's report, prepared for South Australia Police's Human Resources director, links the 2001 exam incident to victimisation and threats by police against a Coober Pedy colleague who reported an incident where a detective ran away from a random breath-test and was never charged.
The associated cheating incident happened on September 26, 2001, when five officers sat the senior constable exam at Coober Pedy TAFE, a record of interview reveals.
Supt W. D. Bristow said in a later report he intervened in the station's operations shortly after taking command of the Far North Local Service Area in February 2002.
He was investigating the harassment of Constable Anthony Baldino, who had reported the RBT incident, when he discovered issues surrounding the exam.
"During the examination Constable Baldino was put under pressure by the four other members to provide answers to questions," Supt Bristow's report stated.
"He at first refused to provide information, but eventually, after continuing pressure from others, he did so."
The Bristow report concluded Constable Baldino had bowed to peer pressure to stop the harassment and in the belief he would be accepted back by his colleagues.
But after examiners noticed similarities in the answers, an internal investigation resulted in the five members being charged with breaches of the SAPOL Code of Conduct.
Four years later - after two internal investigations, a Police Complaints Authority review and a Police Commissioner's re-investigation - Police Commissioner Mal Hyde sent a letter of apology to Sen-Constable Baldino, who is now an Acting Sergeant at Port Adelaide. Mr Hyde's personal apology came two years after the Bristow report found then Constable Baldino was "victimised, isolated and constantly harassed".
The conclusions from Supt Bristow's investigation included:
VERY little was done to address the victimisation, isolation and harassment of Constable Baldino.
CONSTABLE Baldino suffered significant financial loss and serious family disruption.
ALTHOUGH effectively accused of cheating during the senior constable exam, none of those involved were required to re-sit the exam and their results stood until a later investigation.
CONSTABLE Baldino was not prepared to stand on the exam result and re-sat the exam in 2002 and achieved a pass mark of 70 per cent.
Supt Bristow, who has since left SAPOL, ends his investigation conclusions with a claim that a whistleblower was not protected and supported.
"His reward for his attempt to address the wrong was to be told by a senior officer to forget the matter and not to make waves," he wrote.
A spokeswoman for Mr Hyde said she had not seen the Bristow report, but in respect of the officers who cheated she said: "All were charged with breaches of police regulations."
"Two resigned from SAPOL prior to the charges being finalised and the others appeared before the Commissioner," she said.
"Disciplinary action was implemented, with all suspended from duty without pay for periods ranging from two to four weeks and those still employed by SAPOL re-sat the exam in 2002."
No details were given of the outcome of those exams.
Liberal MLC Angus Redford, who raised the Baldino case earlier this year sparking a re-investigation, said there were still too many unanswered questions.
"This is a clear case for an external investigation," he said.
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