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"Neighbourhood policing is the programme that is being used by the Royal Bahamas Police Force to ensure that members of the community have a greater voice in the way that officers ‘police’ their areas," the statement continues.
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Rome News-Tribune - Rome,GA,US
24 January 2008
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A Rockmart man who works for the Atlanta Police Department pleaded guilty in federal court to taking payoffs to perform his normal duties as a police officer while on duty.
The suspect was identified as Daniel Betts, 26.
According to United States Attorney David Nahmias and the information presented in court:
In June 2007, as part of the continuing investigation of police misconduct that was triggered by the shooting of Kathryn Johnston in November 2006, the Federal Bureau of Investigation learned that an office worker at an Atlanta apartment complex had an arrangement by which he/she paid APD Officer Gregg Junnier several hundred dollars a week in exchange for standard police protection.
Junnier had been charged and pleaded guilty to federal civil-rights homicide and related state charges based on his involvement in the Johnston shooting. Through Junnier’s cooperation with the government, the FBI learned that he and other officers had entered into such arrangements with multiple businesses in Atlanta, whereby the business owners made weekly payments to Junnier and other officers to get them to respond while on duty to emergency calls and provide other services that citizens are entitled to expect free of charge.
Many of these businesses were located in areas plagued by high crime rates and illegal drug activity -- areas where residents are desperate for police protection.
After Junnier was suspended from APD, other officers took over the so-called “extra jobs” he had developed with the various business owners. The FBI placed one such business, an apartment complex, under surveillance for several months, from July through October 2007.
In that period, BETTS, a five-year veteran of APD assigned to a different area of Zone 1, made weekly visits to the owner to collect a fee of $120 in cash. Over the course of these monitored meetings, Betts made clear to the owner that the payments were for the service of having Betts and other officers patrol the apartment complex and surrounding area while on duty.
Betts also stated that he and other officers would push crime away from the paying owner’s apartment complex and towards a nearby complex whose owner was not making payoffs to officers.
On one particular occasion, October 26, 2007, Betts patrolled through and around the apartment complex while a grant representative was visiting the owner’s property. Betts met with the grant representative and discussed the steps that he and other officers were taking to minimize crime in and around the complex. This assurance was given by Betts in an effort to help the owner secure the grant for which he had applied. For this service, provided while BETTS was on duty, the owner paid Betts an additional $80 on top of his weekly $120 fee. The grant representative was in fact an undercover FBI agent and the meeting was recorded.
Betts pleaded guilty to a Criminal Information charging one count of interfering with interstate commerce by means of extortion under color of official right. Late this afternoon, a United States Magistrate set bond for BETTS at $10,000.
Sentencing for Betts is scheduled for April 4, 2008, at 2 p.m., before United States District Judge Julie E. Carnes.
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