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Police may be liable for drive
VICTORIA Police have been warned it may be responsible for an off-duty officer driving a bus, whose passengers have been accused of assaulting and racially taunting a Jewish man.

A letter from the Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission to the alleged victim, Menachem Vorchheimer, states the officer, Terry Moore, may have had a de facto responsibility to decide the bus's route and to control passengers.
It also states that the "Victoria Police may be vicariously liable for the involvement of Terry Moore in this matter".

Mr Vorchheimer has launched a civil act... Read more

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Former auditor urges covert co

Former auditor-general Ken MacPherson says covert operations should be considered as a way to uncover corruption in South Australia.

In a speech today, he said it frightens him to hear that a Police Commissioner's inquiry has been ordered into serious incidents involving police.

The State Government is not in favour of an independent commission against corruption in SA and a spokeswoman for the Police Commissioner has declined to comment on Mr MacPherson's views.

Mr MacPherson argues that police investigating police is a fundamentally flawed idea.

"It frightens me every time I hear something along the phrase of 'it's going to be a commissioner's inquiry'," he said.

"A Commissioner's inquiry into the police: it's like the chief lion looking into the lions' den.

"It just doesn't work. History is evidence to the fact that these arrangements are unsafe."

Mr MacPherson argues that greater accountability is needed.

"I was curious to read the legislation relating to the Police Complaints Authority here in South Australia to find that the secrecy arrangements that apply in relation to that are quite extraordinary," he said.

"That really means that ... law enforcement agencies, the police in this state, don't have the accountability that I think is appropriate."

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