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Police arrest 7-year-old on di
BALTIMORE — Police arrested a 7-year-old boy, handcuffed him and hauled him down to the station house on a charge of riding a motorized dirt bike on a sidewalk.
Then, according to his mother, Gerard Mungo Jr. was handcuffed to a bench and interrogated before being released to his parents.
"They scared me," Gerard told The Baltimore Examiner before breaking down in tears.
Mayor Sheila Dixon apologized Friday for the arrest, and police commissioner Leonard Hamm said it would be investigated internally.
The arrest came after an officer saw Gerard riding... Read more
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Loophole may spare corrupt cop
A LEGAL ambiguity may prevent investigators from the Office of Police Integrity (OPI) from testifying against corrupt police.
The problem lies in an amendment made this year to laws empowering the OPI, according to reports today.
Victoria's chief prosecutor, Gavin Silbert, SC, told the County Court last month that the amendment had left "sufficient doubt as to the ability to call the OPI witnesses as part of the prosecution case", the report said.
The amendment is designed to protect OPI investigators from civil or criminal action unless they act in bad faith, and from having to testify in inappropriate circumstances, media reports said.
But the law says OPI staff "cannot be called to give evidence in any court or in any legal proceedings or before the Appeals Board in respect of any matter coming to his or her knowledge in the exercise of functions under this act", potentially giving it a much wider than intended scope, according to the reports.
During a case involving three detectives based at Springvale last month, Mr Silbert told County Court judge Tim Wood that the legislation would need to be amended before the trial could proceed because "there is certainly an argument as to whether the (OPI) witnesses to be called by the Crown can be called by the Crown".
A spokeswoman for Police Minister Bob Cameron yesterday defended the government's anti-corruption system but would not say if the laws would be changed.
"Any legal technicalities which may arise and require clarification because of the potential to disrupt our corruption-fighting system will be addressed appropriately," she told Fairfax.
Opposition police spokesman Andrew McIntosh said the laws could derail corruption trials and any fix may need to be retrospective, which might cause further problems.
"John Brumby chose not to adopt the nation's best practice, as was done in NSW and Queensland. After four years, several separate sets of legislation and millions of dollars spent, the government has again put the hard work of the OPI in jeopardy."
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