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Iraq: The Most Corrupt Cops In
The Iraqi police have, like police forces throughout the Middle East, been cursed with pervasive corruption. Even when Saddam ran the country, the national police were considered a bunch of corrupt buffoons. To control the country, Saddam created several security services, including, by 2003, a large force of street thugs, who were unleashed on any neighborhood or town that was showing signs of unrest or disloyalty. That approach is no longer acceptable in Iraq, and efforts to create a modern, efficient police force have proved difficult.
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13 December 2005
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Special Prosecutors Examine Ed
Royal Candian Mounted Police investigators turned over the results of a 19-month investigation into the Edmonton Police Service photo radar scandal to special prosecutors with Alberta Justice Criminal Special Prosecutions. Justice officials will consider whether criminal charges are warranted in a case involving a no-bid contract and a $400,000 police slush fund.
The RCMP found evidence that at least three police officers accepted perks from Affiliated Computer Systems, a company later recommended for a twenty year, no-bid photo ticket contract worth $90 million. The mounties judged it inappropriate to take the ordinary course of submitting their findings to Acting Chief Darryl da Costa, who is himself under fire for accepting free hockey tickets from ACS in 1999 and 2004, in violation of police ethics rules. Da Costa later supported the no-bid contract.
The Edmonton Journal reports that an anonymous email from an officer in April 2004 triggered the investigation. The 28-year veteran of the force said that three officers had accepted an all-expense-paid vacation to Las Vegas from ACS that included the free use of Harley Davidson motorcycles during their stay. In addition, one officer received a trip to Washington, DC and two others accepted free hockey tickets.
In return, the officers bypassed the police commission which was supposed to review the contract decision. Instead, the officers told the council committee directly that only ACS was capable of providing the ticketing service. The council assumed the police commission had signed off on the deal.
The contract included a provision requiring ACS to deposit 50 cents into an unreported slush fund for police. The secret account, labeled, "community awareness program," had generated over $400,000 since 1999.
Source: RCMP completes probe into photo-radar contracts (Edmonton Journal (Canada), 12/13/2005)
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