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VICTORIA'S highly secretive police watchdog has hired private investigators to dig into the affairs of its own employees.
The Office of Police Integrity engaged the firm Julie Baker-Smith and Associates to investigate John Kapetanovski, a highly respected former Victoria Police detective.
The OPI sacked Mr Kapetanovski last year and he has been fighting his dismissal in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, now Fair Work Australia.
It's believed Mr Kapetanovski worked in the OPI's integrity testing area.
The OPI told the commission it had hired ... Read more
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CBS 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
19 September 2007
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Oakland PD Denies Misconduct I
The Oakland Police Department on Wednesday denied allegations of police corruption and misconduct charged by Oakland City Council President Ignacio De La Fuente.
De La Fuente asserted police misconduct during a Sunday interview with the San Francisco Chronicle about a sexual assault case involving his son. He said his son was framed in a political vendetta.
Police announced today they are required to investigate all allegations of misconduct and that the Federal Bureau of Investigations will look into the matter.
"Due to the seriousness of the allegations made, we owe it to the citizens of Oakland, the members of the Police Department, and to Mr. De La Fuente (to) conduct a thorough and independent investigation of all charges made against the Department," Assistant Police Chief Howard Jordan said.
Jordan said the results of the investigation would show that investigators handled the case "professionally and ethically."
Alameda County District Attorney Tom Orloff said Monday he has no doubt De La Fuente's son, Ignacio De La Fuente Jr., is guilty of sexually assaulting four women ranging from ages 15 to 24 during an 18-month period between October 2003 and April 2005.
Orloff said, "I'm very satisfied that everything was done appropriately" in the case.
De La Fuente Jr., 34, would have faced multiple life sentences if he'd been convicted of all charges. Prosecutors agreed to drop three kidnapping enhancement clauses in return for his guilty plea. His negotiated plea calls for a 14-year state prison term when Alameda County Superior Court Judge Allan Hymer sentences him on Oct. 26.
De La Fuente Sr. also made allegations of police misconduct on a Web site, stating that even though his son no longer faces life in prison, the case against him was an "injustice," the facts "didn't connect," the evidence was "questionable" and there were "obvious tell-tale signs of a classic set-up."
The site says the De La Fuente family hired a private investigator who found "clear indications of police misconduct that included falsified and altered police reports, witness coercion and plain dirty politics."
Although De La Fuente Sr. was endorsed by the Oakland Police Officers Association in his unsuccessful campaign against Ron Dellums and other candidates in the 2006 election, the site alleges he "was openly disliked by more than a handful of Oakland's high-ranking police officers who felt he had "too much power for a Mexican."
In the trial of De La Fuente Jr., nicknamed "Nacho," three of his victims had already testified against him and the fourth was scheduled to testify the day he entered his guilty plea.
All four victims testified at his preliminary hearing in June 2006 and identified him as their attacker. DNA evidence also tied De La Fuente Jr. to two of the victims.
Deputy District Attorney Brian Owens said three of the four women were prostitutes. He said it was unclear if the fourth woman, who was 15 when she was assaulted in April of 2005, was a prostitute.
Orloff said, "The case was investigated by the police and my office and the system worked the way it was supposed to work."
In a statement on the Web site, De La Fuente Jr. says "I am not without faults," "I am not a saint" and admits he "made some foolish choices in my life."
He says, "I put myself in a position that enabled corrupted people of rank to hunt me, abuse their authority and in the end lock me up for their own personal and/or political gain."
De La Fuente Jr. says he hopes the Web site "will raise public awareness of this raging epidemic of police corruption and abuse of authority which exists not only in Oakland but across America."
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