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A FORMER Victorian police officer claims he has been a victim of corruption and cover-ups at the highest levels of the force after blowing the whistle on detectives allegedly fabricating evidence to obtain court warrants for listening devices.
Gerry McHugh is demanding an independent review of the decision by Victoria's Office of Public Prosecutions not to prosecute two detectives after a four-year internal inquiry recommended they be charged with 11 offences, including attempting to pervert the course of justice.
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Melbourne Herald Sun - Austral
19 July 2007
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Victoria, Australia: Police cu
VICTORIA Police still doesn't have a corruption resistant culture, its watchdog claims.
Office of Police Integrity director George Brouwer said he had evidence of corruption investigators being harassed and victimised by fellow officers.
He said some members of the Ceja taskforce, which identified widespread corruption in the former Victoria Police drug squad, had been badly treated.
"It indicates that Victoria Police still has some way to go to create a corruption resistant culture," Mr Brouwer said in a report tabled in State Parliament yesterday.
But he praised Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon for vigorously pursuing corruption in the drug squad and for forming Ceja as soon as the allegations surfaced.
Mr Brouwer's final report on the Ceja taskforce and drug related police corruption also revealed:
FLAWED procedures in the former Victoria Police drug squad led to widespread police involvement in drug trafficking.
THE since-scrapped drug squad policy of supplying chemicals to criminals in the hope of identifying amphetamine laboratories led to increased availability of speed.
THE Chemical Diversion Desk was so badly run almost 90 per cent of the controlled deliveries by the drug squad were never recovered and ended up being sold as illegal drugs on the street.
CEJA spent $8.3 million investigating 121 alleged incidents of police corruption over its five years.
ALLEGATIONS against more than 20 serving and former Victoria Police officers included "greenlighting" criminals to commit offences, drug trafficking, theft, money laundering and illicit drug use.
FIVE of the eight former drug squad members jailed for corrupt activities since 2001 were nabbed by the Ceja taskforce.
THE drug squad, which was axed by Ms Nixon in 2001, was inadequately supervised and had little or no accountability.
Ms Nixon yesterday welcomed the OPI report and said the highly successful Ceja taskforce would become a yardstick for tackling corruption.
"We identified a problem and we acted, decisively," she said.
The report warns of an unhealthy culture within Victoria Police towards corruption investigators.
"Police members who ostracise Ceja or other anti-corruption investigators pose a serious risk to Victoria Police," it says.
"Their apparent preference to accept drug traffickers and the like, within the ranks of Victoria Police, over the skilled investigators committed to bringing them to justice, is damning."
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