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VICTORIA'S police union is under fire after lobbying for two detectives, jailed last year on drug charges, to keep their jobs while they fight the convictions.
Anti-corruption detectives have described as "disgraceful" the Police Association's argument that corrupt drug squad officers Glenn Sadler and Wayne Strawhorn should not be sacked while they explore avenues of appeal.
A Supreme Court jury found Sadler guilty of conspiring to traffic heroin in September, while a separate jury found Strawhorn guilty of trafficking pseudoephedrine in October.
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Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indones
07 December 2007
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Indonesia: Police seen as most
The Indonesian public ranks the police the most corrupt government institution, followed by the judiciary and legislatures, according to a list compiled by German-based Transparency International.
The Indonesian chapter of the organization announced the results of the 2007 Global Corruption Barometer on Thursday.
The list was compiled on the basis of surveys of 1,010 respondents from Jakarta, Bandung and Surabaya.
Respondents answered questions about how they perceived and experienced corruption, defined as the abuse of entrusted power, including bribery.
Police top the list with an index of 4.2 followed closely by the court and legislatures with 4.1 and 4.0 respectively.
The higher the index, the more corrupt the institution is.
Political parties come in fourth place, with an index of 4.0, followed by permit-issuing institutions (3.8) and the tax authority (3.6).
Todung Mulya Lubis, head of TI in Indonesia, said of the results that this may be the culmination of public disappointment with the institution.
"People have to bribe the police to get a driving license and also at traffic stops," he told a media conference on the report.
"Three out of 10 respondents said they had to pay bribes for services provided by the police."
The police index is the same as last year's. It is up by 0.2 from 2005, when the same survey was conducted by TI.
Political parties topped the list in 2005 while 2006 saw a three-way tie between the judiciary, legislatures and police.
Farouk Muhammad, a professor and former police academy rector told the conference the police had failed to improve its image.
He said corrupt behavior on the part of police officers might even be on the rise and gave a reason: "This could happen because police officers need to replace lost income after anti-gambling sweeps were intensified in 2005 by National Police chief Gen. Sutanto."
Sutanto, installed in 2005, intensified anti-gambling efforts which he identified as a first-100-days priority program.
The survey of corruption in Indonesia also shows that 59 percent of respondents believe corruption practices will increase over the next three years while some 47 percent say the government fight against corruption isn't effective.
Todung said the survey results could mean that the current government has little chance of surviving the next election unless it can thoroughly reform all bureaucratic institutions.
"The government must speed up its bureaucratic reformation ... and become more transparent and efficient in the future if they wish to win."
The 2007 Corruption Barometer involved 63,199 respondents from 60 countries surveyed between June and September.
The police in neighboring Malaysia, with an index of 3.7, are similarly the most corrupt, according to Barometer results.
The United States, Japan and India were among the countries most suspicious of political parties, with citizen responses from those countries resulting in respective index rankings of 4.1, 4.3, and 4.6 for that institution.
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