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Legal Aid call for cops
POLICE officers should not have to fund the legal defences of their bent colleagues, a leading corruption-buster said yesterday.
Instead, Legal Aid should carry the costs, Gary Crooke, QC, told the Herald Sun.
He said the police union should publicly declare that it opposes corruption, instead of sitting on the fence.
It is now 20 years this month since the notoriously corrupt Queensland Police Commissioner, Sir Terence Lewis, took the witness stand at the Fitzgerald Inquiry.
Mr Crooke, who was Fitzgerald's senior counsel assisting, recalled how the police union had publicly supported Lewis and the controversial Bjelke-Petersen government.
The union had also opposed the inquiry which had unearthed systematic police and political corruption.
Mr Crooke, who later helped establish Victoria's Office of Police Integrity, was also critical of the Victorian Police Association's attacks on the OPI.
He said the union suffered from an iden-
tity crisis.
"Do they represent the vast majority of police who are professional and honest, or do they represent those that are corrupt?" he asked.
"It's all very well to talk in terms of everyone being innocent until they're proved guilty.
"But when you have an organisation that represents people, it's got to stand up and be counted."
He said a solution to the union's "us and them" approach could be applied in an official inquiry.
He suggested that the police union be allowed to appear on the basis that it declare its stand.
"Is it to see corruption weeded out, or is to protect those people who are the subject of serious allegations?" he asked.
"The Government should dip into its pockets to allow a police officer charged with serious allegations to apply for Legal Aid and be funded accordingly.
"That leaves the union free to say that its charter is to 'abhor corruption and that we no longer need it'.
Police Association secretary Sen-Sgt Paul Mullett said yesterday his union was opposed to corruption.
"It would be a conflict of interest to fund police officers who are charged because ultimately government departments prosecute those members," he said.
"It falls quite clearly at the feet of the Police Association.
"Our members are servants of the Crown, and employed by the State of Victoria. How can a department of the State of Victoria represent them when they're being charged by the State of Victoria?
Sen-Sgt Mullett said the association, pushing for increased professional standards, had initiated the establishment of a police regulation board.
"We've been responsible for developing the profession in that regard," he said.
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