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Police accused of APC procurem
JAKARTA: Indonesia's police watch group has accused the National Police of marking up the 2001 procurement of armored personnel carriers, saying the police obtained Rp 28 billion (US$307,946) via carrier purchases.

"The price of an armored carrier was set at Rp 5.2 billion in 2001, while the purchase in 2005 of a better type carrier was only set at Rp 3.8 billion," Indonesian Police Watch chairman Netta S. Pane said in a press release.

"The Corruption Eradication Commission should therefore probe the alleged corruption during the 2001 procurement."

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Police need federal DNA databa

A NATIONAL DNA database, accessible by police in any jurisdiction in Australia, has been called for by the new Minister for Justice, David Johnston.

Senator Johnston has called on the states to "stop dragging the chain" and accept a national system which could be quickly implemented under mechanisms already in place.

He endorsed last week's decision by the South Australian Government to dramatically broaden the guidelines for collecting DNA from individuals (anyone 16 and over who is arrested), keeping the samples indefinitely, and doing checks on the DNA profiles of victims of crime.

Senator Johnston said: "I welcome the South Australian Government's initiative. It brings us one step closer to the establishment of a national DNA database … I call on the states to stop dragging the chain on the implementation of a national DNA profile-matching database."

The Federal Government had been working "for some time" on the establishment of a national DNA database, he said.

The federal agency, Crimtrac, had been established in July 2000 with funding of $50 million for capital development, including $3.7 million to develop computer systems to support a national DNA database.

Senator Johnston said he appreciated that concerns had been expressed by states and territories about the integrity of investigations in their jurisdictions. But the Australian Police Ministers' Council, which included NSW, had passed a resolution in November last year allowing national DNA profile matching to encompass all jurisdictions.

This had been enshrined in Federal Government legislative amendments the same month.

"I will be pressing the states and territories to sign the agreement in accordance with [council] resolutions," Senator Johnston said.

Professor Roger Clarke, chairman of the Australian Privacy Foundation, said the foundation took no issue with the proper, controlled use of DNA data to clear up significant crime.

But it did take issue with the establishment of what was a de facto "general population database" where data was inappropriately collected and then stored, as was occurring in South Australia.

"It is always extremely difficult to get anything withdrawn from a database," he said. "There is a great suspicion that many fingerprints exist that were incorrectly captured."

Senator Johnston stirred controversy in his home state of Western Australia last year by accusing the state's police commissioner, Karl O'Callaghan, of not matching his claims on the effectiveness of DNA with action.

He said in the Senate that Mr O'Callaghan was perpetrating a fraud on the people of Western Australia by not using available DNA data to catch criminals. The West Australian State Government minister John Kobelke said the criticism was unjustified and DNA data had been used effectively.

 

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