Corruption and mismanagement are still entrenched in the NSW Police, and problems at the highest levels are "whitewashed", according to evidence given yesterday to a federal parliamentary committee.In a wide-ranging attack, the former head of human resources, Edd Chadbourne, also criticised the Police Integrity Commission, saying it had a "deep-seated reluctance" to tackle either corruption or poor management.The committee also heard from a former NSW police officer that some investigators on the Wood royal commission were corrupt.
The committee is ostensibly inquiring into crime in the community, but Labor members have described the process as a "joke", saying it is aimed at damaging the NSW Government before the March election.
Dr Chadbourne also:
Attacked the legal team that represented him when he appeared before a PIC inquiry.Accused the former head of Internal Affairs, Mal Brammer, of conspiring with the legal team to set him up. Said a sensitive internal inquiry in 2001 into a police employee, who had a "close personal relationship" with the then commissioner, Peter Ryan, had been a "whitewash".
Described the Commissioner, Ken Moroney, as gutless and implied he was duplicitous.
He told the Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, chaired by a Liberal MP, Bronwyn Bishop, [another seriously flawed politician] that he had lost Mr Ryan's confidence in September 2001 after he gave evidence in the PIC's Operation Malta, "which embarrassed him". The legal team which had represented him at the PIC included a leading barrister, Barry Toomey, QC, and another barrister, Alison Stenmark.
But Dr Chadbourne said that at a meeting five months earlier, Mr Toomey, Ms Stenmark and Mr Brammer had discussed how they should target him. Dr Chadbourne told the committee: "Mal Brammer conspired with the police legal team to set me up as a sacrificial lamb in Operation Malta." The committee also heard allegations that a Wood royal commission investigator acted more corruptly than the subjects of its inquiry, including putting lethal heroin on to Kings Cross streets.
A former detective, Mick McGann, said he had evidence of a royal commission operation - Caesar - which targeted corrupt police at Kings Cross but led to lethal heroin flooding the streets.
He said a former NSW detective, Ray Lambie, had played him a tape last year, in which a royal commission investigator, Keiran Miller, was talking to an unnamed informant on July 21, 1996.
Mr McGann said Mr Miller told the informant that heroin had to be returned to a dealer so it could be cut down. "We can't have this as a one-to-one [purity]," Mr Miller allegedly said.
"Miller was also heard to say that [the royal commission] does not have the authority to sell drugs where people are OD'ing," Mr McGann told the committee.
"The informant ... appears worried and was told by Miller at one stage that for people to die in this fashion, that is overdosing on heroin, is manslaughter. "In listening to this side of the tape there is no reference by Miller to stopping the heroin, just cutting it down."
By Whydo Youlie Likethat 21 Feb 03
THE MARSHALL: When are police going to stop investigating themselves? When the government goes straight!
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The community questions ICAC's slagging and fobbing you off?
The ICAC, Commissions, Ombudsman, Police Integrity Commission (PIC), and numerous Tribunals etc, are all arms of government set up as an insurance police for the government's 3 or 4 year election terms. In short they'll be out of office by the time you may be lucky enough to have your matter heard.
Who is bad?
Super Rat? M5? M11? K8? N2? So I trust that some people who, with the photos and guns guessed that a jury would quickly establish a case against a profiled person whom, you just had a picture and a history of. Common knowledge? The government knew their victims would take the blame. Not just chess in court, 'moving around the pieces', but 'putting false evidence, or not enough evidence before the jury."
2,500 crooked detectives? Or a corrupt Government?
Evan Whitton: Either two things occurred. If you said you didn't join the police force to extort money from working girls, your papers were marked 'not suitable for plain clothes' and you were sent back to uniform.
How to become corruption resistant in NSW
Don't trust those who cannot prove themselves with the little amounts of trust you give them. Just because they have a letter of perceived trust doesn't mean they can be trusted.
This is not how you eat 'antisocial behaviour'
Process corruption, perjury, planting of evidence, verbals, fabricated confessions, denial of suspects rights, a solicitor to induce confessions, tampering with electronic recording equipment, framing. Generally green lighting crime, and I say Murder, including the kids who overdosed on heroin. No doubt.
Black Knight - Long way to go home
In line with the current climate of police corruption and the demise of the reform unit set up by Wood, these facts ought to have been a good reason to leave Moroney out of the package as Commissioner.
Bob down and sniff my arse
These are serious invasions of privacy and draconian laws? Where are our democratic soldiers, the lawyers and the barristers who need to take on the government in the courts? Are they plastic? Or to busy feathering their nests? Or have they been cleverly purchased by this black government. Drug test police and politicians, and have the tests independently accessed.
Come in spinner? Or Come in sinner?
"You don't have, in my view very vigilant processes. I suppose it's akin to the problem of corruption within the police," he told the ABC radio. " People say there's corruption with the police (but) do you get the police to investigate problems within their own ranks?
Deeds
I am disturbed by Governments 'actions' in relation to shuffling the police service. Clive Small seconded into Parliament like a cocky in a perch. A breach of the fundamental Separation of Powers Doctrine does not in my view allow the thought of intervening, planning, or shuffling to stack the deck of our police service. The one that suppose to be autonomous according to Lord Denning. Where the Parliamentary Secretary can ask the commissioner of police to 'report' then sack him if he is not satisfied with such report.
Australia's Political Underworld...& their enforcers
The promotion of law and order means money to big business. Profits from insurance, security fixtures, patrol services and the like can only continue to grow if the perceived threat of uncontrollable crime wave escalates. In the past few months there have been many examples of the true nature of our blood thirsty politicians and their sinister attempts to spoon-feed a not so gullible public with their repetitious rhetoric.
Truth
Who is telling the truth? Well I guess Dr. Ed. Chadbourne or Mr. Peter Ryan may have the answer to that. Dr. Chadbourne sacked by Peter Ryan and more specifically in my view because he elected deputy commissioners Dave Madden and Andrew Scipione as the best men in the service in relation to his qualifications to make a recommendation in his capacity as human resources.That is if you believe that a Dr. can be corrupted.
Honesty
What is happening between the Police Service and politics is quite extraordinary at the moment. If stand over tactics don't work tell half the truth honestly and follow the example of sheep. Another word for it is sleaze, yeah. Another word for it is workplace harassment. Another word for it is bribing a Police Officer. Another word for it is misleading Parliament.
Tele Tales
Most people I know don't buy the Daily Telegraph. Why? Because of the lies and propaganda purported by them.
Lord Denning
Interesting how a member of the Police Board Mr. Tim Priest would hold grave fears for his safety from dangerous senior police but fails to name them or have them sacked. Rather Priest resigns as if he had no powers. Could that mean what he was saying is that the Governments are also corrupt?
Corrosive
Clive Small is Bob Carr's choice for the new Police Commissioner. It could only be the case considering his, Small's special appointment into Parliament House. Small who suffers from the little person syndrome is the ideal bend over boy who gets shuffled through his corrupt actions. Rolling the legal system for him after the fact, just like his predecessor Roger the dodger Rogerson.
Black Nexus
The Separation of Powers Doctrine is nowcontaminated witharangeofcolours, now leaving us with a black shirt on a once blue bridge that crossed that thin blue line. The 'Amery and Woodham show'.
Same boat
The Premier, Bob Carr, relies on a militia. A gang of bikies and our Police Service, to show all of us he is no murderer. He should be taken to the task along with his partners in crime like Clive Small to account for those people who like my self have been maliciously assaulted and who have complained, without any service and those who cannot speak for themselves who were murdered, like Terry Falconer. Terry murdered in custody.
Good Cop
Why have our democratic institutions broken down? It's not just the criminal justice system. The Anti-Corruption Network webmaster@anti-corruption-network.org exposes the same issues. A group of white-collar workers who say they have suffered as follows:
Dangerous
I refer to the Daily Telegraph article 22 March 2002 under the heading Priest quits advisory job.
Partners in crime - history!
Roger Rogerson, the old hero, who never faced a result in the Warren Lanfranchi, or Sally-Anne Huckstepp murders, was let off in my opinion when the New South Wales Government rolled the legal system (deciding what evidence to give the police prosecutor) to have the jury believe the illusion they (the Government wanted to create).
Police Chronology 1994-2001
View events in the NSW Police Force since the Wood Royal Commission began in 1994. 1994 May Justice James Wood is appointed Commissioner of the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service ('WRC').
