Australia: Cop Watch - drugs in the force

Taking the illegal drugs leads to the officers associating with drug suppliers, stealing drugs, stealing money and supplying friends, and providing confidential information to the drug suppliers.

Lots of drugs, official reports, more police corruption.

An unknown number of officers in the NSW Police Force are drugged up to their eyeballs, according to a Report just released by the NSW Police Integrity Commission.

Taking the illegal drugs leads to the officers associating with drug suppliers, stealing drugs, stealing money and supplying friends, and providing confidential information to the drug suppliers.

The drugs include amphetamines, cannabis, heroin and cocaine.

The 4 volume Report on drugs in the NSW Police force, which received little media attention, can be seen in full at Police Integrity Commission.

A FORMER POLICE OFFICER WHO TRIED TO DO THE RIGHT THING, prosecute a senior Catholic priest accused of child-sex crimes, was drummed out of the police force, according to the October 3 Australian.

According to documents obtained by The Australian under Freedom of Information laws 30 years after the event, Denis Ryan was disciplined by being removed to Melbourne from a remote country post: this was done to prevent him from pursuing the charges against the abusing priest.

Mr Ryan had taken statements from 16 children saying that they had been abused, but none of the matters reached court. Mr Ryan is attempting to obtain more disclosures under the FOI legislation preparatory to a civil action against his former employer.

POLICE IN TASMANIA ARE ASKING FOR MORE COPPERS TO CLOSE BROTHELS, according to the Oct 7 Mercury.

The copper's union, the Police Association of Tasmania, has said that they would need more cops and wide powers, following the state government's plan to shutdown the state's brothels.

Community groups and sex workers are opposed to the crackdown.

Tasmanian sexual-abuse support group Beyond Abuse warned that driving brothels underground would mean that an illegal and unregulated industry would allow children to become involved in prostitution.

The new law is expected to include five-year jail terms or $50,000 fines for operators of brothels.

MORE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION is being thrown like confetti to the wind, according to the Oct 5 Melbourne Courier Mail.

Acting Deputy Commissioner Noel Ashby said officers have been told not to use the backs of confidential investigation documents for note paper, which then end up being circulated.

Mr Ashby said that a pad of such documents was stolen from Frankston Police Station, in Melbourne, on Friday of last week.

Confidentiality is a sore spot at the moment, as the Victorian government decided in August to ditch the police force computer system after tens of thousands of pages of confidential information were wrongly released.

NEARLY ONE IN EIGHT HIGH-SPEED POLICE CAR CHASE ENDS IN A CRASH, for the year ending June, according to the October 6 Sydney Morning Herald.

There were 2146 recorded pursuits over 2004-2005. Of these, there were 284 collisions and 3 deaths.

'The statistics show clearly that even in relation to minor offences, police are continuing to recklessly endanger innocent bystanders,' said the president of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, Cameron Murphy.

Once again, NSW Police tried to hide the facts by refusing to release the information, only being compelled to do so after a successful freedom of information application.

Mr Murphy continued to say that 'At the moment it seems that when a chase goes right and someone is arrested, there's no real analysis of the conduct. The police just don't get that it isn't worth the life of an innocent bystander or a police officer in order to arrest someone for a minor offence.'

ANOTHER COPPER, ANOTHER CONVICTION, as the first piggy goes to prison following the Western Australian Police Royal Commission.

According to ABC News online of October 6, former copper Gary Mervyn Fagg, 47, pleased guilty to 7 counts of corruption and one count of aggravated burglary and was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment.

Fagg was filmed stealing $10,000 from a storage unit as part of a sting operation set up by the Commission. He admitted obtaining $21,000 by corruption from a businessman he was investigating.

IN A RARE ACT BY AN OTHERWISE SUPINE OMBUDSMAN, a recommendation has been made which would make the police a bit more accountable.

The ACT's Ombudsman has 'urged' the Australia Federal Police to upgrade video surveillance in the cells of Canberra's watch-house.

The latest Annual Report highlights numerous complaints by prisoners, including minors being detained without their parents being notified, and requests for medical help being ignored.

The ombudsman says it has made repeated calls for the installation of a digital video camera system but the police have refused. Video footage from an existing camera helped prove a claim of excessive force by police against a prisoner. However, the video coverage is patchy and unreliable.

A copy of the ACT Ombudsman Report

By Cop Watcher posted 8 October 05

There are coppers on the dance floor

There are coppers on the dancefloor but you better not kill the groove.

Dj, gonna burn this goddamn house right down.

Oh, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, about your kind, and so and so and so and so and so and so, I'll have to play.

If you think you're getting away, I will prove you wrong. I'll take you all the way, boy, just come along, hear me when I say, hey.

There are coppers on the dancefloor but you better not kill the groove, hey, hey hey, hey.

There are coppers on the dancefloor but you better not steal the moves, Dj, gonna burn this goddamn house right down.

Oh I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, there may be others and so and so and so and so and so and so,you'll just have to pray.

If you think your geting away, I will proove you wrong. I'll take you all the way, stay another song, I'll blow you all away, hey!

There are coppers on the dancefloor but you better not kill the groove.

There are coppers on the dancefloor, but you better not steal the moves.

DJ, gonna turn this house around somehow?

“Murder on the Dancefloor” is a song written by Gregg Alexander and Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Alexander and Matt Rowe for Ellis-Bextor’s first album Read My Lips (2001). The music video was directed by Sophie Muller.

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Cop Watch - The threat of privatised state power
Cop Watch will stay silent on proposed anti-terrorist laws and the arrest of peace activist Scott Parkin as so many others are writing about it, but a moment needs to be spent on private security guards - the private army of the state.

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Another terror attack in Australia brings Tweeds Heads (NSW) to a standstill - police brake speed limit to get footy player to footy match - woman ends up dead because of police failure, according to coroner - corrupt corruption commissioner might end up in prison - 14 year old girl gets locked up by police unlawfully - ex-copper gets massive $650,000 pay-out.

A copper's lot may not be happy, but it is certainly well paid
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Terrorism in Ballarat - former Sydney copper sues the police after becoming drug addict - Victorian Police unlawfully releases 'up to 20,000 pages' of confidential files.

Australia: Cop Watch No. 3
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Australia: Copwatch No.2
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Australia: Cop Watch
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Assaulted, intimidated or harassed in custody?
"Then make an Apprehended Violence Order application against the police, says assault victim Ms Teresa Kiernan.

NSW Police Force: 2 dead, $1 million dollars to catch a thief?
NSW police have expressed concern about their response to the Macquarie Fields riots in south-western Sydney after a police pursuit that killed two young youths Dylan Rayward 17, and Mathew Robertson, 19 that went horribly wrong.

OUR STORIES MUST BE TOLD. THEY HAVE TO BE
On Sunday 13th February, a Community gathering will be held to enable all people to remember the death of one of our young Community members, 'TJ' Hickey.

Vic police chief moves to sack officers
The Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police, Christine Nixon, has moved to dismiss two police officers as part of a crackdown on corruption and says up to 20 more dismissals could follow.

Vic flop cop warns there's more corruption
Victorian Police Chief Commissioner, Christine Nixon, says Victorians should brace themselves for more evidence of police corruption.

Vic police corruption report tabled in Parliament
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Bent police compromise Bulldogs gang-rape case
Deputy Commissioner Dave Madden could have compromised gang-rape investigation? Steve Mortimer resigned!

More NSW Police Corruption?
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NSW Cop suspect in murder?
A sacked Sydney police officer has finished giving testimony at a hearing into his corrupt activities over the past eight years. Christopher John Laycock was yesterday recalled to the witness stand at the Police Integrity Commission (PIC).

Corrupt NSW police officer sacked
New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney has sacked an officer who confessed to being involved in corrupt activities over the past eight years.

Policeman draws blank on fake raids
A suspended Sydney policeman has told an inquiry that he has "little recollection" of the details of fake police raids he set up.

Officer planned to kidnap criminals
A senior Sydney police officer who has admitted taking money for tipping off a child porn suspect had also been planning to kidnap criminals and extort money from them, the Police Integrity Commission heard yesterday.

Police offer protection to family following gang rape allegations
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NSW police prosecutor charged with child porn possession
A New South Wales police prosecutor has been charged with the possession of child pornography.

Police, teachers charged in child porn bust
One-hundred-and-fifty people, including police officers and teachers, have been arrested in what the Federal Police (AFP) describe as Australia's biggest Internet child pornography bust.

A corrupt way to treat the community?
I seen the police bleeding on Nine's Sunday program arguing that promotion should depend on how many crimes police have solved and not how many brains they have and that was coming from police commissioner Ken Moroney and Police Minister John Watkins?

Judges Blood Sample: After the fact of the fact of a hangover?
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NSW police drug amnesty under review
A drug amnesty for the New South Wales police force is under review, Police Commissioner Ken Moroney has said.

Police to uphold law not decide mental health
A diagnosis of mental illness could be made over the phone instead of in person, and involuntary psychiatric patients could lose the right to have their case reviewed by a magistrate, under proposed changes to NSW mental health laws.

Redfern police need education not weapons
According to the description of one senior police officer, the ACLO called out on the afternoon before the Redfern violence escalated was "hopeless, intoxicated and had no driver's licence."

Bulldogs simply not the best!
SIMPLY NOT THE BEST AND DEFINITELY NOT BETTER THAN ANYONE, ANYONE I'VE MET.

Clive Small, NSW Inspector Gadget
NSW Police has revived controversial plans for a specialist discriminative squad to tackle the wave of violent crime that has plagued Sydney's south-west for more than a decade.

Drive-by shootings: test your political IQ?
What if since the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption the drugs moved from Kings Cross to Cabramatta. Then since the the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Cabramatta the drugs moved to Bankstown/Greenacre. Giving police more power might just be more fuel on the fire.

NSW drug wars: family feud not responsible for shootings
Do New South Wales citizens have to be diverted from the truth about a drug infested gangland killing? Why did the police lie? Why did the Premier lie? What is wrong with our government and police, are they on the take? Are they on drugs? Are these people being drug tested?

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?
The Wood Royal Commission into police corruption. Where did the police learn their trade skills? Led by example perhaps?

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.

Prison Mind Games-Do they exist?
Directives are given inside the prison system that are not consistent with the law in NSW. And not in the good interests of the health and well being of the prisoners.

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').

Federal Police

AFP: The unlikely CRIMINAL
It was born of a bombing and it made its name after a far more devastating act of terrorism. But for most of the 25 years in between, little was known about the Australian Federal Police force or the work it did.

Australia: Cop Watch No. 3

This round-up includes: disgraced officers may get reinstated with back pay - more confidential information gets released into the public domain by police - body searching at the Sydney Opera House - and Irish police pissed off over WA police poaching campaign in Ireland.

Two Victorian coppers, disgraced by their dismissals for sexual harassment and corruption, may be reinstated to the force with back pay, The Australian newspaper reported on August 12.

In an embarrassing blow to Victorian Police Commissioner Christine Nixon, the Victorian Supreme Court ruled that the police stuffed up the prosecution case against the coppers by not giving them full disclosure.

Ex-coppers Paul Dale and Edward Robb were the first to be dismissed under new powers allowing their boss, the Police Commissioner, to dismiss coppers who have been deemed to have acted corruptly or inappropriately.

Dale was dismissed in September 2004 following an (alleged) 'inappropriate relationship' with a criminal turned police informer, Terence Hodson.

Hodson claimed that his former mate, the copper Dale, helped him with a raid on a house which netted $,1,300,000 worth of drugs and cash.

For some reason, Hodson and his wife were murdered at their home in Kew, last year.

Of course, with the main witness out of the way, the criminal charges against ex-copper Dale were dropped.

Being as sharp as a hungry copper to spot a free sausage at a bbq, Commissioner Christine Nixon observed of Dale that 'the nature of your association with known criminals leads me to the preliminary conclusion your integrity is so damaged that I can no longer have confidence in it...'

As far as the other dismissed copper, Mr Robb, is concerned, the Commissioner cited a number of reasons for her loosing confidence in him, including the little matters of his 'propensity for violence' and his 'poor treatment of women.'

Ex-copper Robb was on the receiving end of 25 complaints, covering 60 allegations, of which 19 were proved.

An example of how he upheld the fine traditions of the force occurred when he was stationed at Benalla, in Victoria's northeast, in May 2001.

He attended a distressed woman who thought she had a prowler on her property. On arrival at the property, constable Robb demanded coffee and told the woman she had a 'nice arse.'

To be honest, I dont know what Comissioner Nixon's problem is, he sounds like a regular copper to me. Alas, we await the outcome of Nixon's decision on what she will do next with the alleged disgraced coppers.

Still in Victoria, a recent Cop Watch referred to the Office of Police Integrity releasing hundreds of confidential files to a member of the public. Nevertheless, Victoria's Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon has full confidence.

However, the habit of confidential police documents turning up in strange places seems to be morphing into a permanent personality characterisic.

The August 15 Border Mail reports that the widow of a man violently killed had confidential family information broadcast on breakfast radio after the police seemingly disposed of police documents at a nearby tip.

Jenny Murphy, wife of the deceased, said that 'I was in such a state that I couldn't think...It is just not good enough, it just can't keep going on.'

A reporter from the Border Mail (really, they should have known better) phoned Victoria Police media who would not comment on the incident, merely referring the reporter to...the Office of Police Integrity. No one from the Office of Police Integrity could be contacted, according to the reporter.

In Sydney, coppers are looking forward to bigger erections and greater lubrication the next time they go to the Opera. The August 13 Sydney Morning Herald reports that Sydneysiders face intrusive 'counter-terrorism' measures, including being touched up by the local cops.

From September 1, patrons may face the prospect of removing coats, jackets, gloves, shoes, hats and to be electronicly scanned. Staff will be able to demand names and addresses. Those refusing can be removed using 'reasonable force.'

The boys and girls from the force, obviously reaching a stage of near-climax, are demanding 'more, more!'

A detailed submission from NSW police will be given to the Police Minister next month asking for more powers. The Herald says that it understands that police want the right to randomly search bags and to frisk people at will - anywhere - and not just the Opera House.

'Yes ! Yes ! you can have all the powers you want !' the NSW Premier is expected to ejaculate in response to the request for more powers.

The president of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, Cameron Murphy, says that further powers at the Opera House risked privacy violations, abuse of personal information and racial profiling.

'We need to take reasonable steps to secure important public institutions like the Opera House but not by railroading people's basic human rights,' he said.

On the other side of the world, a poaching campaign by Western Australian police has caused unhappines, according to the August 13 Irish Examiner.

'I have never been shy in saying that we have the finest policemen and women in the world in An Garda S’ochana [the Irish Police] and I think this is an indication of that,' said Garda [Police] Representative Association (GRA) president Dermot O'Donnell.

'The point is, we need what we have here. I would be hopeful that the Government would be responsible enough to ensure we wouldn't loose any of them to [the] Western Australia people.'

The Western Australian government wishes to recruit 1,400 police officers over the next four years.

Egg-heads and nerdy types who have read this far may want to read about the cultural changes that affect people trying to be part-time coppers. These part-timers are often made to feel unwelcome, the poor little dears, according to research at RMIT. The reference is ‘Part-time and Part-committed’?: The Cultural Challenges of Part-time Work in Policing.

Finally, Cop Watch sadly reports that it is not just in Australia that the mailed fist of the state is becoming more violent in its job. A recent update to the StateWatch website reports on more oppressive laws across Europe.

StateWatch

Indymedia readers may be especially interested in reports on the seizure of Indymedia servers, which can be found here: Censorship Indymedia

and here

Was the seizure of Indymedia's servers in London unlawful or did the UK government collude?

By Julie Smith 15 August 05

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NSW Police Force: 2 dead, $1 million dollars to catch a thief?
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OUR STORIES MUST BE TOLD. THEY HAVE TO BE
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Vic police chief moves to sack officers
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Vic flop cop warns there's more corruption
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Vic police corruption report tabled in Parliament
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Bent police compromise Bulldogs gang-rape case
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More NSW Police Corruption?
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NSW Cop suspect in murder?
A sacked Sydney police officer has finished giving testimony at a hearing into his corrupt activities over the past eight years. Christopher John Laycock was yesterday recalled to the witness stand at the Police Integrity Commission (PIC).

Corrupt NSW police officer sacked
New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney has sacked an officer who confessed to being involved in corrupt activities over the past eight years.

Policeman draws blank on fake raids
A suspended Sydney policeman has told an inquiry that he has "little recollection" of the details of fake police raids he set up.

Officer planned to kidnap criminals
A senior Sydney police officer who has admitted taking money for tipping off a child porn suspect had also been planning to kidnap criminals and extort money from them, the Police Integrity Commission heard yesterday.

Police offer protection to family following gang rape allegations
The parents of a 14-year-old girl claim their daughter was gang-raped in Sydney earlier this year, and have raised concerns about corrupt policeman Detective Sergeant Christopher Laycock's review of the case.

NSW police prosecutor charged with child porn possession
A New South Wales police prosecutor has been charged with the possession of child pornography.

Police, teachers charged in child porn bust
One-hundred-and-fifty people, including police officers and teachers, have been arrested in what the Federal Police (AFP) describe as Australia's biggest Internet child pornography bust.

A corrupt way to treat the community?
I seen the police bleeding on Nine's Sunday program arguing that promotion should depend on how many crimes police have solved and not how many brains they have and that was coming from police commissioner Ken Moroney and Police Minister John Watkins?

Judges Blood Sample: After the fact of the fact of a hangover?
Lawyers say New South Wales Supreme Court judge Jeff Shaw should not give police his own sample of blood taken after he crashed his car near his Sydney home last month.

NSW police drug amnesty under review
A drug amnesty for the New South Wales police force is under review, Police Commissioner Ken Moroney has said.

Police to uphold law not decide mental health
A diagnosis of mental illness could be made over the phone instead of in person, and involuntary psychiatric patients could lose the right to have their case reviewed by a magistrate, under proposed changes to NSW mental health laws.

Redfern police need education not weapons
According to the description of one senior police officer, the ACLO called out on the afternoon before the Redfern violence escalated was "hopeless, intoxicated and had no driver's licence."

Bulldogs simply not the best!
SIMPLY NOT THE BEST AND DEFINITELY NOT BETTER THAN ANYONE, ANYONE I'VE MET.

Clive Small, NSW Inspector Gadget
NSW Police has revived controversial plans for a specialist discriminative squad to tackle the wave of violent crime that has plagued Sydney's south-west for more than a decade.

2,500, crooked detectives? Or a corrupt Government?
The Wood Royal Commission into police corruption. Where did the police learn their trade skills? Led by example perhaps?

Australia's Political Underworld...And 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.

Lord Denning
Interesting how a member of the Police Board Mr. Tim Priest would hold grave fears for his safety from dangerouse 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?

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'.

Partners in crime - history!
Roger Rogerson, the old hero, who never faced a result in the Lanfranchy, or 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).Similarly, Peter Ryan facing the Police Integrity Commission for questions about his involvement in the demise of the dysfunctional reform unit. Chess in the court (rolling the legal system).

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').

Federal Police

AFP: The unlikely CRIMINAL
It was born of a bombing and it made its name after a far more devastating act of terrorism. But for most of the 25 years in between, little was known about the Australian Federal Police force or the work it did.

LEGAL VISITS AT PARKLEA PRISON

I am a prisoner in NSW and I am currently held in Parklea Prison. I am concerned about what is going on in NSW prisons and this is my story.

On 19 January 2005, my solicitor, Ms Shiranioa George came out to Parklea prison to see me on a legal visit. Now, my case is finished...

I'm sentenced and lost on appeal at the Supreme Court, but I have some other legal issues that have to be dealt with. Such as I'm working on an appeal to the High Court, my assets, and some issues in relation to my brother's legal matters. All of which are true, and I cannot talk about those issues to anyone because it is privileged information protected by lawyer/client confidentiality.

On that afternoon, approx 2.30 pm officer Jim Woods [Area Manager] - used to be head of intelligence in 2001-02 (but I think he's been demoted) anyway he canceled my legal visit which he had no right to do.

I spoke with my solicitor the next day on the phone and she told me that Jim Woods accused her of sneaking inside Unit 3 compound. Unit 3 is for protection, which is separate to the Unit 2, which is the main area.

Ms George wanted to see me because Ms George and I are very close friends and have been for years. It is my understanding that there are no laws in seeing an inmate even if they're both friends. And she didn't sneak in to Unit 3 compound; she followed procedure by filling out the paperwork upon entering the prison.

We also had this problem in 2001, when my lawyer made a contact visit. A big deal was made, and officer Woods complained about it. Ms George was given a choice to either see me on a legal visit or contact visits but not both. So she chose to utilise the legal visit and has not been on a contact visit with me since.

Officer Woods has no right to cancel my legal visit with my solicitor as I'm entitled to it and I believe it is my right and I'm sick of his prejudice accusations.

My lawyer has filed a complaint against Woods and I'm waiting to see the Area Manager who is in charge of Unit 3 to discuss the problem. I'm classified to Parklea and don't want to move jails.

I'm hoping that my talking it out would solve the problem. I'll let you know the outcome.

By Will Irani 21 February 05

Ed: The Commissioner of Corrective Services has very wide discretionary powers for the 'Good Order and Security of the Prisons'.

You should also complain to the Ombudsman and see what they say about it so the complaint is acknowledged - for the record.

But we have opposed many decisions made by the Commissioner and have complained to the Ombudsman, but they say they cannot make the Commissioner change his discretionary decisions or even compel him to show any proof why a decision was made.

Please note the clause under 'Relevant administrative law principles' particularly,

"Exercising a discretion in a way that is so unreasonable that no reasonable person would have exercised the power in that way."

Now ask yourself, is Ron Woodham a reasonable person? Well according to his curriculum vitae he's not! And if you can't beat that you're done with the authorities, especially if the Commissioner and his 'cronies' don't like your head.

The other option would perhaps be a legal one so you may need to arrange a legal visit with your solicitor? But regrettably that may just start the whole exercise off again - in an endless loop......

But then again it is my understanding that a prison is not a normal environment and once you're there, you're disabled, even if you were disabled when you were sent there.

And, it is also my 'experience' that the only 'rights' you really have in prison, is from the powers that be.

Attached for your perusal 'Public Sector Agencies fact sheet No 4 NSW Ombudsman'-

Discretionary Powers.

Let us know how you get on we could even make this into a serial segment.

What about?

HERE WE GO ROUND THE CORRUPTIVE SERVICES BUSH....

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fact sheet No 4 Discretionary Powers

What are discretionary powers?

Discretionary powers are permissive, not mandatory. They are powers granted either under statute or delegation which do not impose a duty on the decision-maker to exercise them or to exercise them in a particular way. Within certain constraints, decision-makers are able to choose whether and/or how to exercise discretionary powers.

How must they be exercised?

No public official has an unfettered discretionary power. Public officials must exercise discretionary powers in accordance with any applicable legal requirements, reasonably, impartially and avoiding oppression or unnecessary injury.

Agencies should adopt policies and procedures which set out the general approach to be followed in at least each major area of activity for which they are responsible. This should ensure that the agency's powers are exercised consistently from case to case, unless the merits of any particular case justify a different approach.

Relevant administrative law principles

In exercising discretionary powers, various principles of administrative law require public officials to:

* use discretionary powers in good faith and for a proper purpose (ie, honestly and only within the scope of and for the purpose for which the power was given)
* base their decision on logically probative material (ie, logical reasons, information that proves the issues in question, relevant and reliable evidence)
* consider only relevant considerations and not consider irrelevant considerations
* give adequate weight to a matter of great importance but not give excessive weight to a relevant factor of no great importance
* exercise their discretion independently and not act under the dictation or at the behest of any third person or body
* give proper, genuine and realistic consideration to the merits of the particular case, and not apply policy inflexibly, and
* observe the basic rules of procedural fairness (ie, natural justice).

Other principles of administrative law preclude public officials from:

* making decisions in matters in which they have an actual or reasonably perceived conflict of interests
* improperly fettering their own discretion (or that of future decision-makers) by, for example, adopting a policy that prescribes decision-making in certain circumstances
* exercising a discretion in a way that is so unreasonable that no reasonable person would have exercised the power in that way
* exercising a discretionary power in such a way that the result is uncertain
* acting in a way that is biased or conveys a reasonable perception of bias
* making decisions that are arbitrary, vague or fanciful
* refusing to exercise a discretionary power in circumstances where the decision-maker is under a duty to do so, or
* unreasonably delaying the making of a decision that the decision-maker is under a duty to make.

It is a serious matter for public officials to ignore valid advice or valid considerations, particularly for the purposes of avoiding discomfort or embarrassment on the part of the government, agency or decision-maker.

Policies and practices to guide the exercise of discretionary power

Not every situation demands a policy, and policies are not a panacea capable of properly addressing all circumstances. However, policies are an important means of guiding decision-makers in exercising discretionary powers appropriately, consistently and fairly.

Policies should include an objective and the criteria to be used in decision-making to help ensure that:

* all relevant legal requirements are complied with
* all relevant factors are considered
* there is consistency in decision-making, and
* the decision-making process is transparent and accountable.

As a matter of principle, it is unacceptable for an agency to adopt and implement a policy that adversely affects, or could adversely affect, the rights or interests of any member of the public where the existence or content of the policy is kept secret or the policy document is not available for inspection and purchase on request.

Policies adopted by agencies should be communicated to relevant staff and members of the public. In this regard, s.15 of the Freedom of Information Act requires that agencies must ensure each of their policy documents are available for inspection and purchase by members of the public.

Government circulars, memoranda and codes of practice

There is usually no legally enforceable obligation to comply with government circulars, memoranda and relevant industry or generally accepted codes of practice. However in the interests of fairness, equity and consistency, decision-makers should have regard to them and comply with their terms unless there are justifiable, and preferably documented, reasons for taking another course of action.

Implementing policies and procedures consistently

Policies should not be applied rigidly without proper consideration of the particular circumstances and merits of each individual case.

There will be occasions where there are justifiable grounds for not following policies, practices, codes or guidelines. Where an agency, with good and preferably documented reason, departs from a consistent application of a policy, this does not create a precedent which binds the agency.

Such decisions are relevant and important considerations, but are not binding. Conversely, where an agency frequently departs from or ignores a policy, the policy would seem to have little weight or relevance and would need review.

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Police are warning media outlets they may face criminal charges if they release confidential information about investigations.

The call comes after the details of an assault on a woman at Coffs Harbour were read on a commercial radio station in Sydney yesterday morning.

Allegations that as many as six Bulldogs rugby league players had sexually assaulted a woman at Coffs Harbour.

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There is a good reason for that because alleged gang rapists who are football stars for instance, must be protected, joining a long list of alleged rock-spiders who are held in high esteem from swimming coaches to tennis coaches and those who are allegedly setting an example for Australia.

But if you didn't have a name and were not held in high esteem by Australia and you don't know Mrs Jones in the boys club then police would be giving out details 'quick smart' themselves to commercial radio stations.

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By Starsky and Hutch 25 February 04

THE SNAKE: Police are in damage control for the yuppies and when that happens they have to make it up. Therefore all information has to be filtered so that the alleged investigation can be flawed. Football stars don't gang rape people! Snap out of it. Neither are swimming coaches rock-spiders.

When are commercial radio stations going to understand that police are subject to a higher power? The will of the government. And that all information has to be filtered and that depends on whom has been alleged to have committed an offence and whether those alleged to have committed an offence, if charged, or found guilty, would be done so in the interests of the government of the day, whether that be State or Federal.

Police say confidential information about investigations should be withheld but in the grand scheme of things it is to protect certain people and police will always give us a legitimate reason for having to do so.

Same as when they terrorise people they will always have a legitimate reason for being there whether people are being terrorised or not, as police claimed in the Hickey death that, "police were chasing someone else", or perhaps doing something else.

The challenge as I see it is to break-down the overwhelming nature of police always having a legitimate reason to be there or to quote investigations or not by having a set rule or by ensuring police have a warrant etc.

But some people appear to be worth more than others and it's obviously a discretionary decision by police meaning (they don't have to show proof why a decision is made one way or another). Police have legitimacy, whether what they are doing is legitimate, or purely in the interest of some VIP. By the way I barrack for the Roosters!

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