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A VICTORIAN police officer has been charged with serious sex offences - years after concerns were first raised about his conduct.
The Office of Police Integrity has launched an investigation into the officer, stationed in country Victoria.
They have raided his police station and home, seizing computers and documents.
The Herald Sun has been told concerns were raised years ago about the member's connection to Blue Light Discos run for young teenagers.
Sources say a number of allegations of sexual misconduct were made but alleged victims chose not to procee... Read more
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25 June 2007
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Mexico Puts Top Cops to Corrup
Mexico temporarily removed all 284 of its top federal police officers from their jobs and is forcing them to undergo psychological reviews to prove they will not be corrupted in the fight against drug trafficking, the government said Monday.
Mexican authorities have often purged police forces in attempts to eliminate corruption, only to see many of the fired officers go to work full-time for organized crime. This is one of the most extreme measures taken yet in hopes of guaranteeing the honesty of high-ranking officers.
It also comes as Mexico seeks more U.S. aid in a nationwide crackdown on drug gangs. Washington has long complained about corruption hindering anti-smuggling efforts in Mexico.
Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said the move came in response to Mexican frustration over corruption, and has nothing to do with U.S. pressure. In recent years, scores of federal police have been caught working for the drug cartels, tainting what Mexicans once considered their last trustworthy group of officers.
"We are well aware that the Mexican people are demanding police be honest, clean and trustworthy," Garcia Luna said. "It's obvious that there are mafias that don't want the situation to change so they can continue to enrich themselves under the protection of corruption and crime."
In one infamous case, a regional federal director, Armando Villalobos, was arrested along with 26 other state, federal and local police in Cancun in 2004. The arrests were related to the deaths of seven people, including three federal agents, in violence linked to a ring that paid police to protect drug smugglers.
Garcia Luna said the 284 high-ranking police would be forced to undergo what he called a "trust test," including anti-doping exams, polygraphs and psychological reviews, as well as investigations of their acquaintances, friends, and family, and checks on whether their assets are in line with their earnings.
Garcia said the officers would keep their ranks while undergoing the evaluation, and the 34 with the best results would be promoted to regional federal police directors, the highest position in the field. Those who flunk the drug and polygraph tests will be off the force.
A separate group of 16 federal officers have been ordered to take courses on professionalism after failing initial tests, and six others who refused drug tests will be turned over to internal affairs, Garcia Luna said.
The government wants to avoid firing officers because after past purges many have gone on to help organized crime improve their communications, weaponry and techniques, officials have said.
The 284 officers are prohibited from speaking publicly until the investigation is completed.
U.S. officials also have recommended that Mexico streamline its tangle of federal police forces, which often compete with each other and refuse to share information.
This latest evaluation focuses on the Federal Preventative Police and the Federal Agency of Investigation, or AFI, which are leading the drug fight with soldiers.
President Felipe Calderon's predecessor, Vicente Fox, created AFI, which is equivalent to the U.S. FBI, shortly after taking office in 2000 as a replacement for the notoriously corrupt and inept Federal Judicial Police. But AFI has had its share of problems, including being involved in the 2004 case.
Since taking office in December, Calderon has sent 24,000 troops to regions plagued by drug gangs, who have been linked to more than 1,300 deaths so far this year.
State and local police are also suspect. In April, the Nuevo Leon state government arrested 141 state officers, accusing them of working for the powerful Gulf cartel along the Texas border. And in Tijuana earlier this year, soldiers patrolled the streets while local police were disarmed following accusations they protected smugglers.
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