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Nigeria police in emerging dem
This is a paper presented by the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Sunday Ehindero at a forum organised by the Lagos State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) at Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Ikeja.
In order to fully appreciate this topic, it will be helpful to consider generally the functions of the Nigeria Police.
Police forces all over the world are sadded with the responsibility of striving to ensure an almost crime-free society.” John Anderson enumerated ten objectives of a Police System in’ a free, permissive and participatory society as follows:
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The Australian
04 February 2010
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Stop corruption before it star
QUEENSLAND Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson responded to news police stations were raided and officers interrogated in an investigation into Gold Coast drug crime by saying the region "has been an area of concern for more than 10 years". So why didn't he act long before the Crime and Misconduct Commission raids on the weekend? Police Minister Neil Roberts's response to the raids was equally anodyne, saying corruption will not be tolerated. And yet it has been, with allegations that cocaine has gone missing from a police station and officers ignore drug dealing in Gold Coast nightclubs. If this brings back memories, it should. While the Fitzgerald inquiry into police and political corruption in the late 1980s paid more attention to prostitution and breaches of the licensing laws than to the drug trade, there are unsettling similarities between what we learned then and what is emerging now.
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Police corruption occurs when officers understand there is easy money to be made from ignoring offences and consorting with criminals, when there is such a small chance of being caught that taking bribes becomes routine. And some police will always protect their own. Last year, the CMC report into Operation Capri, which investigated police misconduct, found "relatively senior-ranking police officers showed contempt for Queensland Police Service policies and procedures, and indeed were prepared to actively breach the law to achieve desired investigative outcomes. If that is the tone from supervisors, it is no wonder subordinates see no reason to act differently." Yet the police union airily dismissed Capri's conclusions, saying corruption was not an issue in the force. And five officers implicated in the investigation were disciplined with "managerial guidance".
The response to Capri demonstrated the way the Fitzgerald effect is wearing off, the way some Queensland police do not understand what happens when discipline declines and ethics erode. And now another example is unfolding, with what appears a corrupt culture among rogue police. The Gold Coast is not physically far from police headquarters in Brisbane, but when it comes to corruption, some officers there are in a pre-Fitzgerald world. It is time the service imposed the discipline and expected the behaviour that are needed to stop corruption starting, rather than relying on the CMC to investigate officers after it occurs.
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