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FONTANA-On Monday, the Institute for Public Safety Partnerships will be at the Abbey Resort, trying to improve communications between village officials and the police department.
Fontana Village Administrator Kelly Hayden-Staggs said that village board trustees and other officials will spend the morning attending ethics and integrity training, while police officers, including one from the village of Walworth, will attend a similar session in the afternoon.
"It's really about communication and identifying with issues that are involved with local law enforcement," said Sand... Read more
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Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New S
30 January 2007
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Rookie cops 'smeared'
MORE than 7000 people have gathered at the Goulburn's police college this morning for the graduation of 799 recrutis, the largest-ever class.
The graduates comprise 616 men and 183 women. Sixty-one of the new police are from non-English speaking backgrounds.
And while the graduate numbers exceed the target set by the State Government - bringing the state's force to 15,300 - today's ceremony is tinged with a little bitterness due to the clouds hanging over the class.
Yesterday a police lecturer broke ranks to defend those recruits graduating top of their class, accusing the State Government of smearing their reputations by lowering standards.
The lecturer revealed many recruits were "disgusted'' with the politicisation of their situation - effectively a government promise to have 750 new recruits on the street by the March election.
He claimed those who achieved good results were dragged down by others used to prop up a government agenda.
"Many of these people deserve to graduate but feel they will be considered a joke because management didn't keep up standards and the politicians were saying 'We want this many and we don't care who','' he said.
"We were basically told down here by the police hierarchy that there would be 750 on the parade ground regardless.''
The lecturer risks being sacked if caught speaking to the media - a fact hammered home to college staff recently - but he said he believed the way the class was pushed through was "unethical''.
He has also backed The Daily Telegraph story that revealed the pass percentage on the class ethics exam was lowered to ensure less failed.
"They had 549 people fail the 40-question exam which only had a pass mark of 50 per cent so they just kept lowering the percentage until only 142 had failed,'' the lecturer said.
"There's people graduating who have re-sat exams four and five times just to make sure they pass.
"It's a complete breach of the college's own policy where people who fail once can re-sit them immediately but when it's twice they must come back next tri-mester and try again.''
His comments follow a report in The Daily Telegraph yesterday revealing the latest class of recruits had not received any practical training at police stations.
The lecturer is not alone in his concern too many concessions were made. A complaint has been lodged with ICAC alleging that exams were "marked up'' and policies breached.
"A lot of blame is with recruitment because if they'd done the assessments properly in the first place a lot of these people wouldn't have got in,'' the lecturer said.
A NSW Police spokesman "emphatically denied'' entry standards were relaxed.
The spokesman also said there had been no "formal complaints'' made to the force about the treatment of the class.
He could not say how many had been allowed to re-sit their exams or how many times for each, except to say "this class has met the standards of all previous classes''.
Opposition police spokesman Mike Gallacher said yesterday the government's electioneering meant "police have been forced into doing everything, including cutting corners to achieve a political end to suit a political party for their re-election campaign''.
He added: "Morris Iemma put in place an artifical deadline that was never obtainable in reality.''
Police Minister John Watkins would not say whether the government's election promise had jeopardised the standards of police training by over-stretching the force's college.
Instead, he said Commissioner Ken Moroney "assures me there has been no lowering of standards at the college''.
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