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A 53-year-old woman filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit Monday against the city of Oakland, saying a police officer pulled her over for no reason and touched her inappropriately.
The suit is the latest in a misconduct case that has already cost the city more than $2 million.
The officer, Richard Valerga, 53, resigned from the department in 2005 and was sentenced to six months in jail after pleading no contest to criminal charges of harassing women during illegal car stops.
The plaintiff in the suit filed Monday, identified only as Jane Roe, said Valerga turned on h... Read more
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BusinessDay - Lagos,Nigeria
28 January 2009
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Nigeria: Minister blasts polic
Hassan Lawal, minister of works and housing, has blasted the police, Federal Road Safety Corps officials, and vehicle inspection officers on the highways for proliferating corrupt practices, which he blamed for the recurrent abuse of federal roads by users leading to unnecessary deaths.
Meanwhile, the accusations were graciously refuted by Osita Chidoka, corps marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), who fingered continuous political interference as hindrance to effective execution of duties.
Lawal, speaking at an interactive forum with road transport stakeholders, Tuesday, in Abuja, also identified over-loading, indiscriminate parking and dumping of refuse along federal roads as notable forms of abuses being perpetrated on the roads.
He said, “There is total nonchalant attitude and total disregard for possible accidents and disasters and carnage and every sort of corrupt practices by officials of this three arms. This is the truth, and the truth is always painful. And even the corrupt practices are so degrading, they are so demeaning and they are so dehumanising.”
Noting that something as little as N50 allows these shady officials to say “pass”, the minister added, “And as soon as they pass, something happens, hundreds of lives are lost. I think it is high time it pricked our conscience; it is high time we became more serious. The responsibility is on all of us, please save lives and property; please protect our infrastructure, its people’s money. Millions and millions of naira are being spent on the construction of highways, yet these are misused and abused so open”.
In order to deal with the indiscriminate parking of trailers and trucks on the highway, an act blamed for several accidents all year round, Lawal disclosed that his ministry was working towards obtaining permission from the Federal Executive Council to set up model parking lots in the six geo-political zones of the nation where these vehicles may park at a price.
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