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NEWS.com.au - Australia
30 October 2007
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Australia: Prisoners 'paid for
POLICE and prisoners in Queensland have been implicated in a scam in which they share information about crimes to pocket thousands of dollars in rewards.
The Crime and Misconduct Commission has identified several police and prisoners who have unexplained cash in their banks accounts.
It is understood State Crime Operations Command - major crime investigators- and the armed robbery squad have been embroiled in the scam.
It is believed police and prisoners split the cash after prisoners are paid for information about crimes. Police use Australia Post outlets to deposit cash into prisoner's trust accounts.
A fund is provided to police which is used to convince informants to provide information about unsolved crimes. Unlike Crime Stoppers rewards, cash from the fund does not rely on an arrest.
Queensland Police yesterday confirmed they were working with the CMC on an investigation named Operation Capri, set up in 2005, which is probing relationships between police and convicted criminals.
The Courier-Mail first reported details of the investigation in June, revealing that prisoner Bevan Meninga - the brother of rugby league legend Mal Meninga - had received money from police. Other prisoners are also understood to have received money.
Cleveland Detective Senior-Sergeant Wayne Talbot is understood to have used an Australia Post money order to transfer cash into the account of his wife, Julie Talbot.
During the investigation, Rockhampton Detective Senior-Sergeant Graham Richards was suspended with pay.
Three other officers, all based in Brisbane, have also been suspended with pay or stood down.
It is believed the secret operation has sparked an internal review within State Crime Operations Command and the review extends to how police informants are paid and registered.
In a statement yesterday, the Queensland Police Service confirmed it was conducting a joint investigation with the CMC.
"State Crime Operations Command has policies and procedures that govern the use and management of human sources (informants)," the statement said. "Human Source Management procedures are governed by risk management and accountability measures to control rewards and other benefits given to human sources (informants).
"As with many QPS systems, this is subject to continuous improvement."
A watershed investigation into police corruption, the Fitzgerald inquiry, expressed serious concerns about how informants were being paid as well as the transparency of the practice.
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