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Corrupt former officers are controlling syndicates in Victoria's police, relying on a gossip-based strategy to undermine reforms, the state's chief corruption fighter says.
In an annual report of the Office of Police Integrity (OPI), director George Brouwer described how corruption was operating with links to organised crime.
Although a very small minority of police were corrupt, they had adopted a deliberate strategy to undermine efforts to make Victoria Police more professional and accountable, the report said.
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Dispatch Online - South Africa
15 January 2008
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South Africa: Editorial opinio
SOUTH Africans are still reeling in shock at the nature and extent of the allegations of corruption, racketeering etcetera, against suspended national police Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
President Thabo Mbeki is predictably being hard-hit by the political tsunami with calls made yesterday for the ANC to �ditch him, his corrupt regime and his cronies immediately�.
He was �lying through his teeth� when he made his extraordinary claim on Saturday that he did not know of any wrongdoing by Selebi until �a few days ago�, argues political commentator Justice Malala. Mbeki did after all, attempt to block the National Prosecuting Authority from prosecuting Selebi when he suspended NPA head, Vusi Pikoli, after it had secured a warrant for Selebi. Such an action does have all the trappings of complicity, and, considering the scale and seriousness of Selebi�s alleged wrongdoing, there is certainly grounds for the ANC to take some form of action.
The party and the entire country have been brought into further disrepute. The image of the police force has been utterly trashed and confidence in their integrity obliterated, both in South Africa and abroad. There can also be little doubt that police morale is currently in need of
life-support.
There is however, another dimension to this appalling state of affairs that is perhaps even more horrifying. That is the impact on this country, and on our youth, of turning a blind-eye to Glenn Agliotti�s alleged drug-dealing activities.
South Africa is well-known for having become a major transit point for the shipment of narcotics, says the Institute for Security Studies� Peter Gastrow. Our country is rapidly developing all the characteristics of a narco-economy.
This particular incident involving Agliotti is believed to be just the tip of the ice-berg. How any law enforcement officer, let alone a police commissioner, could knowingly turn a blind eye to the transport of large consignments of drugs, is simply criminal.
How anyone in authority could stand back and risk South Africa turning into another Columbia or Burkina Faso is unconscionable. And how anyone could be prepared to put the lives of our youth on the line by allowing such a situation to flourish, is beyond comprehension.
Such an individual, or individuals, are surely deserving of the harshest punishment.
Certainly the law must take its course, but our nation faces irretrievable damage if urgent steps are not taken. An independent investigation must be mounted to expose police corruption. Confidence in our crimefighters must be restored. If this involves suspending the State President as well, then so be it.
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