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East Palo Alto police officials have quietly been working for months on a complete overhaul of the department's internal investigations process and are preparing to roll out the first changes to the public within the coming weeks.
Atop their list is a more streamlined and structured complaint process and a vow to the public that all citizen complaints will be taken seriously and investigated fully within 90 days.
The changes come as two East Palo Alto police officers and a teenage Police Explorer face criminal charges of beating a man while off-duty.
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The Australian - Sydney,Austra
27 March 2008
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Australia: Taskforce inquiry i
GROSS mismanagement and allegations of theft, rorting and kickbacks in senior levels of Victoria Police are being investigated by a secret internal corruption taskforce.
The taskforce, which includes forensic accountants, is believed to have identified tens of thousands of dollars that are either missing or unaccounted for.
One senior manager who allegedly ran up a $5000 monthly bill while operating a private consultancy through his Victoria Police mobile telephone is understood to have been charged with theft.
Victoria Police has confirmed a senior manager has resigned as a result of the investigation.
It is understood that investigators have so far found about 90 mobile telephones were distributed without records being kept of where they went.
The wife of a senior manager was allegedly given a Victoria Police mobile phone and laptop for her private use. The potential misuse of travel budgets and allegations of kickbacks to police employees from suppliers are also being investigated.
The internal investigation into the troubled Business Information Technology Services department began about a month ago after an audit uncovered wide-ranging financial irregularities.
A police source said the investigation had the potential to evolve into one of the biggest and most complex internal probes of its kind ever undertaken by Victoria Police.
The information technology department, which is responsible for overseeing all information and computer technology within Victoria Police, has been dogged by controversy and allegations of incompetence, wrongdoing and cost blowouts for years.
The investigation is so complex it has been put in the hands of Commander David Sprague, who previously headed such high-profile cases as the execution-style murders of two young police constables in Walsh Street, South Yarra, in 1988 and the hunt for the child killer dubbed "Mr Cruel".
Those under investigation are understood to be mostly civilian public servants employed by Victoria Police and not uniformed officers.
The head of the BITS department, Valda Berzins, was appointed chief information officer from outside the force by Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon in 2004 to "clean up" chronic problems with Victoria Police's technology section.
Ms Berzins, who is also part of Ms Nixon's executive management group and reports to the Chief Commissioner, declined to comment on the investigation. She referred The Australian to Victoria Police's communications director.
An initial audit of the technology department by the force's Corporate Management Review Division is understood to have resulted in a damning report with 106 recommendations, a number of them critical of the department's top management.
The internal corruption investigation was ordered after an initial assessment that criminal behaviour could be involved.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman said a "range of matters around process" had been identified and work was under way to "rectify these issues". "We can confirm that as a consequence of the audit one senior manager has resigned," she said.
Past problems in the department include alleged misbehaviour by senior managers, attempts to cover up budget blowouts and the discovery of child pornography links on a senior manager's laptop.
The department was responsible for overseeing a contract that blew out from $151.5 million to $239.5 million.
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