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3 Vice Officers Facing Charges
A New York City police officer and two supervisors, including one charged with maintaining integrity in their vice unit, are expected to surrender to prosecutors today on felony charges that they broke into a massage parlor in Brooklyn, a law enforcement official said yesterday.
The three officers, a lieutenant, a sergeant and a police officer who worked together in the Brooklyn South vice unit, will face third-degree burglary charges in the break-in, which occurred in April in Sunset Park, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the charges have n... Read more
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Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney
08 October 2008
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Australia: Police accused of c
A Melbourne policewoman reversed a police van into another car then offered favours to a witness in return for a false statement about the crash, a court was told.
Belinda Jane Rampal, a senior constable at St Kilda Police Station at the time, faces two criminal charges over what would have been a relatively minor misdemeanour.
She is on trial in the Victorian County Court along with her co-accused, Alan John Black, a probationary constable at St Kilda at the time of the accident.
The pair had pulled up in a police divisional van in St Kilda on April 29, 2006 to speak to prostitute Amber Barry and her boyfriend, Andrew Lawry.
Rampal reversed the van to speak to the couple and hit a stationary 4WD Pajero behind, Crown Prosecutor Ray Gibson told the County Court on Wednesday.
Rampal and Black did not record the accident, but the wife of the Pajero driver rang the St Kilda Police Station the following day and reported the smash.
The Crown alleges that when Mr Lawry, who witnessed the accident, went to the station to make a statement about another matter, Rampal pulled him aside and asked him to make a statement saying the Pajero driver drove into the rear of the police van.
When he agreed, Rampal allegedly said, "If you need any favours come and see me".
Mr Lawry did not go through with the statement, the court heard.
Two weeks later, Rampal saw Mr Lawry at a service station in St Kilda and repeated her request that he make a false statement about the accident, the Crown alleges.
Statements by both Rampal and Black claim the 4WD drove into the police van, Mr Gibson said.
Rampal has pleaded not guilty to one count of attempting to pervert the course of justice and one count of misconduct in public office.
Black has pleaded not guilty to one charge of misconduct in public office.
Defence counsel Geoff Steward, for Rampal, said his client did not reverse the police van or make a false statement, nor did she approach Mr Lawry about making a false statement.
Gerard Mullaly, for Black, argued there was nothing false about the statement made by his client.
"Alan Black told it as he experienced it as a passenger in the divisional van," Mr Mullaly said.
The trial before Judge Damien Murphy is continuing.
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