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UK: Two police staff sacked fo
TWO Notts Police staff were sacked after investigations into complaints made by the public.
The staff were dismissed after disciplinary hearings between April 1 and September 30 this year.
No action was taken against a police officer subjected to a conduct hearing during the same period.
There were 40 conduct cases between April 1 and September 30 2008 – up four on 2007, Notts Police Authority's professional standards committee heard.
Of these, 28 officers and 16 staff were the subject of one or more allegations.
Two police officers and four police staff resigned prior... Read more
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Chicago Breaking News - Tribun
17 September 2009
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4 ex-Chicago cops to plead gui
Four former Chicago police officers implicated in the Special Operations Section scandal have made deals to plead guilty in exchange for cooperating with the investigation, a sign that the state and federal probes of one of the city's biggest police corruption scandals ever is coming to a head, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation.
Most of the officers who turned themselves in at a police station this morning have not previously been charged in the SOS case, but they had made deals with state prosecutors as early as 2006 to eventually plead guilty to reduced charges in exchange for their testimony.
They are expected to testify at trial and have already provided grand jury testimony against former Officer Jerome Finnigan and several others who are accused of running a robbery and home invasion ring for years, acting under the guise of busting street gangs and rounding up guns.
Sally Daly, spokeswoman for the Cook County state's attorney's office, confirmed that four officers will be arraigned in criminal court Friday.
Today's development in Cook County Circuit Court signals that federal indictments in a parallel investigation run by the U.S. attorney are finally ready to be filed, sources said. The U.S. attorney's office and the FBI entered the case in 2007 to investigate whether there was a cover-up by Chicago Police Department supervisors. Federal indictments in the case may include charges against several ranking officers, sources said.
SOS was once one of the department's elite crime-fighting units, praised by department brass as the best of the best at making gang and drug arrests. But while they were racking up arrests in the late 1990s and early 2000s, they were also tallying thousands of complaints of false arrest and thefts. Battles within the Internal Affairs Division about the handling of complaints against SOS officers have been at the center of the federal investigation.
When the scandal broke in September 2006, it was the first and biggest domino in a line of misconduct cases that led to the early retirement of then-Supt. Philip Cline, whom Mayor Richard Daley replaced with Jody Weis, a former FBI official.
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