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Discipline cases against cops
The New Orleans Police Department's efforts to enforce stricter discipline standards after widely publicized lapses during Hurricane Katrina were dented this week when 39 prestorm internal investigations were thrown out because the time limit to complete the cases expired.
Civil Service Hearing Examiner Harry Tervalon Jr. ruled that the investigations, all started before the storm, were not completed within the mandated 60-day time limit and the city was late in requesting extensions. Superintendent Warren Riley wrote a letter itemizing the storm-related delays in finishing the cas... Read more
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The Canberra Times - Canberra,
10 October 2008
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Corrupt Vic police cells 'risk
Lives have been and may still be put at risk by the actions of rogue and corrupt Victorian police, the state's police watchdog has warned.
Office of Police Integrity director Michael Strong said investigators would continue to pursue police members who engaged in illegal acts, had inappropriate relationships with known criminals or showed greater loyalty to suspect mates than to the community.
The OPI's annual report to state Parliament was tabled yesterday. Included in the 100-page report was a warning that anti-corruption investigators would continue to chase the small number of suspect police ''cells''.
Mr Strong particularly criticised the way a ''code of silence'' existed in corrupt cells, to the point where anti-corruption investigations were being hindered. ''In extreme cases lives can be, and have been, put in jeopardy,'' Mr Strong writes.
He said the watchdog's investigations had significantly disrupted or curtailed the activities of corrupt cells.
''In the process, OPI has gained significant insight into the extent of the networks amongst cell members and how they operate to undermine the integrity of Victoria Police.''
The report also details how:
A sergeant and a senior constable, unnamed, came to own shares in a hotel and befriended a cocaine dealer, spending time at the football together. During the relationship the sergeant lent $14,000 to the cocaine dealer. Both officers have been disciplined.
A policeman kicked a small woman in her midriff while she was in police custody, forcing her off balance and knocking her head against a wall. The incident was captured on security video footage. An internal police investigation found this to be an appropriate use of force, but the police watchdog disagrees.
Victoria Police failed to comply with the OPI's 2005 recommendations to overhaul the police data system, LEAP, now due for replacement late next year.
Improper associations and information trading are the main source of illegal activities within the cell members. The motivations range from profit and buying favours to sharing information because of a long-standing relationship.
The number of suspected corrupt cells in Victoria Police is thought to be small but includes members who ''appear to be culturally influential''.
''Whilst members may engage in separate, discreet activities, they are often protected by an outmoded police culture that turns a 'blind eye' to inappropriate activity, or demands loyalty to a code of silence,'' Mr Strong says.
The police watchdog argued earlier this year that field investigators needed to be armed to safely track the activities of corrupt police, leading the Police Association to fear this could lead to a shoot-out. Yesterday's report again raises the idea that corrupt police could be involved in murder, whether directly or indirectly.
At least two murder investigations in recent years have operated on the assumption of possible police involvement. The execution of self-professed vampire and sado-masochistic male prostitute Shane Chartres-Abbott is believed to have taken place after a policeman gave his address to a hitman, leading to several investigations.
A taskforce has also been set up to investigate the possibility of police involvement in the murders of police informant Terrence Hodson and his wife Christine.
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