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The Michigan Department of State Police needs to explain exactly how many illegal acts a trooper would have to commit before he or she is deemed unfit to arrest anybody else. In what appears to be a lampoon of the department's code of honor, a trooper who lied about a traffic crash, fled the accident scene and then falsely reported his vehicle stolen, is still on duty. The governor and the Legislature also should inquire into this.
Law enforcement officers are expected to obey the law, not break it. Those who fail to serve with integrity and responsibility should suffer the consequ... Read more
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14 January 2008
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South Africa police chief resi
South Africa's police chief and the head of Interpol, Jackie Selebi, stepped down from both jobs at the weekend after prosecutors said they intend to charge him with bribery and defeating the ends of justice over his "generally corrupt relationship" with a convicted drug trafficker who is on trial for murder.
Selebi told the international police agency he was stepping down "in the best interests of Interpol and out of respect for the global law enforcement community" amid further revelations about the charges he is to face.
On Saturday, President Thabo Mbeki agreed to what he described as Selebi's request to be placed on an indefinite leave of absence as South Africa's police chief.
Ronald K Noble, the secretary general of the Paris-based police agency, yesterday praised Selebi's work with Interpol and said the allegations against him had "nothing to do with his position as president of Interpol". But Noble added that "corruption is one of the most serious offences that any police official can be accused of".
Selebi is expected to be formally charged this week with accepting at least 1.2m rand (£90,000) from Glen Agliotti, a convicted drug trafficker who is awaiting trial accused of murdering a corrupt mining magnate, Brett Kebble. In return the police chief is alleged to have protected narcotics shipments and passed on to Agliotti confidential intelligence reports from Britain about his trafficking operations. He is also accused of passing on information about the Kebble murder inquiry to Agliotti.
Court papers show payments allegedly made to Selebi through a front company were listed as "cash cop" and "cash chief". The papers also show that despite Selebi's denials of a close relationship with Agliotti the police chief made 223 mobile phone calls to him over a three-year period, with as many as three calls a week last year. According to South African press reports yesterday, the indictment also accuses Selebi of meeting the Swiss lawyer of a fugitive Zimbabwean businessman, Billy Rautenbach, in police uniform to discuss cancelling an international arrest warrant and then accepting $30,000 from Rautenbach to try to use his office to do it.
It also alleges that Selebi took Gucci handbags for his wife and for his girlfriend. Witnesses against the police chief include Agliotti's former girlfriend and secretary, Dianne Muller, who told investigators she counted out the cash Agliotti gave to Selebi.
Selebi has vigorously denied the accusations against him.
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