The reckoning of a police whistleblower

A decade after crooked cop Trevor Haken rolled over at the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption, he remains in fear of his life and says he has been left out in the cold by authorities, having reached his used-by date.

"I would have been far better off not going on side with the Royal Commission and holding the line with other members of the New South Wales police force," he said.

"I still feel, and I think I always will feel, that my life is in danger because of the number of people that I implicated at the royal commission.

"I'm basically not a creature of habit anymore. I live life as though I'm being followed all the time. I drive looking out of the rear-view mirror all the time. I don't shop in the same shopping centre twice."

As a former high-ranking detective in the New South Wales police service, Haken was a member of the drug squad at the CIB, led the drug unit at Kings Cross for several years and was a member of the joint task force into drug trafficking. But Haken was on the take.

He and his colleagues protected some organised drug syndicates in return for monetary kickbacks and information. That information was used to investigate and prosecute competing drug syndicates.

Haken says it was an arrangement that allowed the police some measure of control over crime and gave tacit approval for their criminal associates to grow their market share.
Former NSW police minister Paul Whelan says Haken was nothing more than a crook.

"Haken and his mates were the gatekeepers of crime at Kings Cross, 'please pay'. They believed that they had 'noble cause'. In fact, they were just straight crooks," Mr Wheelan said.

[Yeah, and Wheelan had nothing to do with it?]

Rush to ruin

Haken now says accepting kickbacks was "a rush towards a ruined life".

Still, he did not set out to be crooked. With stars in his eyes, Haken joined the police force after the death of his father. It was the yearning for a "brotherhood" and strong male role models that sealed the deal.

Following the lead of others, he soon became involved with tow-truck rackets that paid kickbacks when notified of accidents. It was a seemingly harmless scheme and Haken says it wasn't long before most things could be "justified".

"When you start off into corrupt practice it doesn't take very much to go up the ladder. And the further you go up the ladder, the more acceptable things become until you reach a point where there's nothing that isn't acceptable," he said.

Haken says it got to the stage where there was no form of improper behaviour that he wasn't involved in.

"I was involved in stealing money, verballing people, giving false evidence, gutting briefs which is removing information from briefs to allow people to be exonerated," he said.

After years of lining his pockets with the proceeds of crime, Haken realised that he was under surveillance.

"In the early 90s I was aware that I was under surveillance by police from some organisation. I wasn't aware who," he said.

"And then on one occasion I went home and found that the tumblers on my front door lock had been interfered with.

I didn't know whether it was a clandestine search had been carried out on my home or whether they'd placed listening devices in the house. But I was aware that I was under surveillance," Haken said.

Pivotal evidence

It was the New South Wales Crime Commission that had been keeping an eye on Haken and in September 1994 senior officers from the Wood Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service made contact with Haken and asked him to roll over.

He says he made the choice because inevitably there was no other choice. In exchange for criminal indemnity, Haken spent nine months gathering audio and video evidence.

Some of his infamous targets included crime boss Bill Bayeh and friend and colleague detective inspector Graham Fowler. Haken says it was dangerous work.

"At one meeting with Bayeh, he told me that another police associate had told him he must have balls to be meeting with me because the rumours were all over town that I'd rolled.

"And he said, 'If anyone goes against me, I'll kill them, I'll kill their wife, I'll kill their kids'. And that's not a threat I took idly, not then, not now," Haken said.

Once his cover was blown, his then wife and four children were put in the witness protection program, separated from Haken and sent overseas without any follow-up support.

When his turn as star witness at the Royal Commission came, Haken's evidence proved pivotal.

Mr Wheelan says the evidence sent shockwaves through the force.

"Haken's public acknowledgement as a police informer sent shockwaves to those he'd been working with. It came as a bomb.

"Haken exposed a large number of corrupt police, all the way up to chief superintendent to assistant commissioner," Mr Whelan said.

"I would have to say that it was Haken's evidence that was crucial for the success of the Royal Commission."

[But in reality they didn't go far enough did they Mr Whelan? They never got the headkickers in Parliament House did they? They didn't get the politicians that owned the pub just up the road from Surry Hills Police Centre and who allowed things like the standard police 'noble cause corruption' to go on, did they Mr Wheelan? What about the stealing money? verballing people? giving false evidence? gutting briefs which is removing information from briefs? to allow people to be exonerated. Not to mention out and out police corruption? Laugh!]

Haken continued to give evidence for a further nine years and individuals such as Bayeh and Fowler were charged and jailed for various crimes. On the whole, the Wood Royal Commission was the catalyst for wide-ranging reforms of the New South Wales policing system, but it still rankles with Haken that there were others whom he implicated that were never charged.

Life in hiding

Haken says he has been left high and dry following his experience as a whistleblower and is devastated by a life in hiding.

"I've lost all hope that life can ever be returned to normality," Haken said.

"I believe I haven't been suitably compensated and my security hasn't been taken into consideration properly. Financially I'm in a perilous situation.

"In the eyes of those at the Police Integrity Commission I've reached my used-by date."

In the end he failed the brotherhood and the brotherhood has failed him.

"Even if I had gone to jail, it would have probably only been for a couple of years and not the life sentence that I've got now," he said. [Known Disparity for Police.]

"I just think if you do the crime, do the time." [Laugh.]

It seems a simple logic in retrospect.

By Jess Daly posted 8 October 05

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A copper's lot may not be happy, but it is certainly well paid

NSW Police to set up full time riot squad following Forbes protests - no one wants to be Commissioner of Police in NSW - no one wants to be a copper in SA - another copper rapes a juvenile - more secrecy bungles in Victoria - more drugs for the cops on duty - Justice Wood (former Commissioner into Police Corruption) says little has changed in 10 years - cops on corruption charges get stressed out and get compo.

NSW Police have announced that a full-time stand by riot squad will be set up. A Sept 1 AAP report says that lessons have been learned 'during the Macquarie Fields riots and Forbes conference protests.'

NSW Police Commissioner, Ken Moroney, announced the squad's formation on Sept. 1, saying its members would be handpicked and specially trained.

The 45-member team would be led by Kings Cross Commander, Superintendent Steve Cullen, who had been directing police security for the Forbes Global CEO conference in Sydney.

'We have drawn on the lessons learned from Macquarie Fields and are mindful of the public order incidents witnessed at the Forbes Global CEO Conference,' Mr Moroney said.

Mr Moroney is facing his own riotous situation as a crisis has hit the senior ranks of NSW Police, with no one wanting to take over the job of Commissioner.

An August 28 report in The Sunday Telegraph spoke of the tension behind whether Ken Moroney would continue as NSW Police Commissioner or retire in favour of, among others, the Victorian police commissioner, Ms Nixon, who is in a spot of trouble herself (see below).

Ken Moroney has been a police officer for 40 years - can you imagine the mindset he must have ?

At least the top 5 in the senior command don't seem to be up to the job.

Candidate 1 (Deputy Commissioner Andrew Scipione) has told colleagues he doesn't want the job.

Candidate 2 (Assistant Commissioner Dave Madden) is still on sick leave, and awaiting the possibility that he will be criminally charged for allegedly leaking information obtained on a telephone intercept.

Candidate 3 (Assistant Commissioner Peter Parsons) is also waiting to see whether he will face charges over the telephone intercept matter.

Candidate 4 (Assistant Commissioner, Dick Adams) has recently retired for 'health reasons.'

Candidate 5 (Assistant Commissioner, Bob Waites) has been widely criticised for saying that the combined forces of NSW Police could not protect Health Minister Tony Abbott from students at a proposed talk.

The Victorian Police Commissioner, Christine Nixon, could then be a realistic candidate to come up to NSW. How unfortunate, then, that she has done a shit in her own garden by violating rules designed to prevent corruption.

The Australian of August 29 reported that the Victorian Police Commissioner appears to have broken department rules about registering an underworld 'consultant' at the centre of a corruption scandal.

As Victorian Police Commissioner, you would have thought that Ms Nixon would be aware of the requirement to register police informants, if only to 'cover her arse,' as one senior officer was quoted. But that was not the case.

Note: since this article has been written, Ken Moroney has announced he will stay on, thus avoiding the need to choose anyone as a successor.

Following the people in Western Australia who don't want to join the police (see previous issues of Cop Watch) the recruitment problem has now shifted to South Australia. The Adelaide Advertiser of August 31 reports that local people don't want to join 'the filth' either, leaving a shortfall in recruiting targets.

Those who do become police officers are spending more and more of their time sexually abusing the vulnerable. If not 10 year old girls in Thailand (allegedly) as reported in a previous issue of Cop Watch, then teenage boys in Australia.

An August 20 AAP report says that former police inspector Bruce McLennan sexually abused two brothers, aged between 12 and 14, which included indecent assault and penetration.

Presumably because the former copper was 77 (sic), the abusive old bastard got a whopping 3 years 8 months in prison, but he will get out in only 12 months if he keeps his dick to himself while inside. He had been a copper for 38 years.

Whether genitals or confidential information, they just can't keep it to themselves. First, the Victorian Police Integrity Commission throws confidential files to the wind, then the Victorian Police, and now the Victorian Police has outdone itself.

An August 30 AAP report says that Victorian Police are 'disappointed' that secret police surveillance tapes that were meant to be destroyed by contractors were found in a warehouse by a rubbish collector.

The tapes, including one of murdered underworld figure Lewis Moran recorded in July 2001, were found by the rubbish collector in an unsecured warehouse. They have since been broadcast on the Nine Network (a commercial tv station).

The rubbish collector said the tapes were dumped at the warehouse and left for three months before he took them home to record on.

'There was no security at all,' he said.

When incompetent coppers are not abusing the sexually vulnerable, there's always the enormous amount of drugs at their disposal to keep their minds off things.

The August 26 Australian reports that a senior officer who led a raid in which the drugs seized were later linked to the overdose death of another policeman has been suspended.

The clear inference is that some of the drugs ended up from the evidence bag into the private possession of the police who were doing the raids.

After the former copper died through 'amphetamine and narcotic toxity' an investigation was set up.

Other officers who took part in the raid which obtained the drugs included former copper 1 (suspended from the police 6 months ago); former copper 2 (resigned from the police and faces drug charges); former copper 3 (under investigation) and former copper 4 (under investigation)

A Victoria Police spokesman declined to comment, saying the matters were still under investigation.

But does anything change ?

August 27 newspapers reported on the appointment of Justice Wood as the new NSW police watchdog 10 years after the landmark royal commission into NSW police found systematic corruption.

Has anything changed since he exposed corruption into the NSW police force ? No, says the former Judge. The police have failed to establish systems that 'control the emergence of misconduct or corruption'.

Justice Wood said that the NSW Police Association [the copper's 'union'] had an 'intuitive reaction of denial and defence' and that an independent legal office should be established.

All of this corruption investigation must get stressful for the police officers involved. So why not give them stress compo handouts ? A September 2, APP report says that Victorian police suspended while facing corruption charges receive payouts under the state's workers' compensation scheme for stress related to the investigation.

This seems to second-guess the outcome of the investigation. Suspected corrupt coppers can be suspended with pay (where the evidence is flimsy) or without pay (if the evidence is overwhelming). When suspended without pay, they simply apply for compo.

A copper's lot may not be happy, but it is certainly well paid...

By Cop Watcher 8 September 05

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

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.

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

The roundup this week - dodgy riot gear, shooting French photographers, senior coppers being 4 times over the legal limit, dodgy promotions in NSW, more terrorism powers in WA and drug-dealing coppers in Melbourne (it is alleged).

The August 7 Sunday Telegraph reports that NSW police is facing an $800,000 fine for not providing proper riot gear for police during the riot last year in Redfern. The riot took place after the death of a local Koori boy, TJ Hickey, while being followed by police.

Workcover has recommended NSW Police be charged with negligence on the basis that helmets, shields and other riot equipment held at Redfern police station were old, broken or worn and that nothing was done to replace them.

The helmets were too big, the visors were so badly scratched that officers could not see through them, and the shields were too small to stop leg injuries.

The man responsible for ensuring that police had the right gear was assistant commissioner Dick Adams. Dick Adams has meanwhile left the force on what are called medical grounds.

The August 7 Sun-Herald continues the grand tradition of the media peddling human interest stories to put police in a good light. The paper did a sympathetic piece on a former copper, Anthony Dilorenzo, who shot a man dead at Bondi Beach.

The victim was a French photographer called Roni Levi. Levi waded fully clothed into the Bondi surf carrying a kitchen knife - no one knows why. When he returned to land, however, the police surrounded him and shot him dead using four bullets.

Differing versions of the events occurred, but at least some witnesses on the promenande say that the man posed no threat to the officers, let alone enough of a threat to shoot him four times.

All fairly straight-forward it seems - officers doing a difficult job under difficult circumstances and so on, till it was alleged that both officers were coked off their little heads. Both coppers had spent the previous night at a party with alcohol and cocaine till just before their 6.00am shift.

What a shame, then, that neither copper was tested for alcohol or drugs, to show whether or not they were under the influence of alcohol or coked off their little piggy faces. However, Mr Dilorenzo did confess to being a regular cocaine user and was discharged from the force.

Mr Podesta, the other copper who pumped bullets into the French photographer at point blank range, was later convicted on drugs charges and also left the police service.

The August 4 Herald Sun reports that famous Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil has had his license removed for 12 months after an alcohol-related driving offence.

The star of Walkabout and The Tracker was caught with a blood-alcohol reading of .093 on July 17. This will no doubt come of some comfort to a police inspector who was caught driving with .236, according to the July 25 Sydney Morning Herald.

The drink-driving copper, Inspector Lee Philip Renshaw, had his day in Hobart Magistrates Court where he will return in the future. Till the small matter of being four times over the legal limit is sorted out, the Tasmanin Police Comimssioner has told Renshaw that he is not able to exercise any of his powers as a police officer pending the outcome of this matter.

That will teach him a lesson.

NSW police meanwhile want to promote more grunting gorillas by emphasising the importance of practical experience.

An August 9 report says that NSW police officers who want to be promoted to the dizzying heights of sergeant will go through an application process that will take more consideration of their operational experience.

Although a backward step for those people still silly enough to hope for any sort of reform in the police force, it is at least better than the system at the time of the Wood Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service in 1997. This system was described as being one where, in order to be promoted, an officer had to be quote warm but vertical unquote.

The warm but vertical comment (above) was made by none other than the Police Commissioner in NSW, Mr Moroney, who also said that until the early 1990s you could almost pinpoint to a day on which those before you were retiring ... and determine when your next promotion was going to be.

The NSW Minister for Police, Mr Anderson, said the changes to the policing system were quote tailored towards the police officer who has an understanding of what's happening out there... rather than one who simply wants to sit down and study a book. unquote

You couldn't make it up.

But there are police complaints systems such as the Police Integrity Commission in NSW. The August 9 Sydney Morning Herald reports that the outgoing inspector of the Police Integrity Commission has called for an extension of power to be made to his successor so that he can investigate a broader number of officers.

Morris Ireland, QC, whose term in office expires at the end of August, has called on the state government to allow his successor to be able to investigate more officers than he can at present. Mr Ireland, in his annual inspector's report, called for the powers to be widened to include agencies such as the NSW Crime Commission.

An example of where this would have been more useful, says Mr Ireland, would have been Operation Florida, where it seems that most police north of Manly were involved in cocaine trafficking. The Operation was a three-year undercover investigation into links between police and known criminals in the distribution of cocaine across Sydney and targeted 300 members of the NSW Police Service.

The new Police Integrity Commission's head will be Justice James Wood. Justice Wood has been a NSW Supreme Court judge since 1984 and will retire at the end of this month. He is the same Justice Wood that headed the royal commission into police corruption in NSW from 1994 to 1997. Although the report makes sensational reading, very few coppers have actually served any time as a result of the report's revelations.

By now, you may be thinking that coppers are the last people you want to give more powers to, but this is not to be the case. The Western Australian Government will introduce new counter-terrorism laws to satisfy police demands. The new powers will grant police special powers to search, apprehend and detain people suspected of terrorist activities. The legislation has not yet been introduced into Parliament, but Dr Dr Gallop says the powers will need to be used 'responsibly'.

WA Police Commissioner, Karl O'Callaghan, has welcomed the proposed package which the WA Police put forward to the state government in the first place.

From terrorism to drugs... The Australian reports on August 10 that one of the crack cops in Victoria made thousands of dollars from supplying drugs to the Bandidos motorcycle gang and members of the Moran crime family - allegedly.

The jury in the trial of (Detective Senior Sergeant) Wayne Geoffrey Strawhorn was told that the copper made a mint from his connections, ending in a threat to kill against an internal affairs detective who was investigating the state's now disbanded drugs squad.

On March 15, 2003, Mr Strawhorn was taped making threats to kill Inspector Peter De Santo - allegedly. He said quote the bottom line is my life at Vicpol is over ... I will not rest until De Santo is dead ... I have to (kill him). It is the only way to get satisfaction. unquote

The former copper known as Strawhorn has pleaded not guilty to five counts of trafficking in pseudoephedrine. He also denies a sixth charge of making a threat to kill the ethical standards department detective.

The trial, as they say, continues.

By Julie Smith posted 14 August 05

Related:

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
The Victorian Ombudsman's report on the Ceja Taskforce and drug related corruption in Victoria police has been tabled in State Parliament.

Bent police compromise Bulldogs gang-rape case
Deputy Commissioner Dave Madden could have compromised gang-rape investigation? Steve Mortimer resigned!

More NSW Police Corruption?
Line of fire? [Bullshit! Line of Lick Arse Noble Cause NSW Corrupt Cops] (clockwise from top left) Deputy Commissioner Dave Madden, Assistant Commissioner Peter Parsons, Superintendent Dave Swilkes, Assistant Commissioner Bob Waites and Superintendent Dave Owens.

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.

More NSW Police Corruption?

Line of fire? [Line of Noble Cause NSW Corrupt Cops] (clockwise from top left) Deputy Commissioner Dave Madden, Assistant Commissioner Peter Parsons, Superintendent Dave Swilkes, Assistant Commissioner Bob Waites and Superintendent Dave Owens.

Five senior police officers have been referred to the NSW Police Integrity Commission. For some, this is not their first time in the limelight...

Police officers referred to the Police Integrity Commission, Deputy Commissioner Dave Madden, Assistant Commissioner Peter Parsons, Superintendent Dave Swilkes, Assistant Commissioner Bob Waites and Superintendent Dave Owens.

Major corruption at the highest levels in the NSW police Force has resurfaced in media reports less than 10 years after the Wood Royal Commission found that NSW police was racked with corruption.

The Police Selective Commission?

The five very senior officers have been referred to the Police Integrity Commission.

The five reported are:

Deputy Police Commissioner Dave Madden (attached to Commissioner Moroney's office) Assistant Commissioner Peter Parsons (in charge of the state's northern region) Assistant commissioner Bob Waites (heads the command covering greater Sydney) Superintendent Dave Swilkes (runs the command covering Newcastle region) Superintendent Dave Owens (area commander for Sydney's eastern suburbs)

The details of why they were reported are 'secret' and no evidence has been publicly released as to any wrongdoing, with both the NSW Premier Bob Carr and the Police Integrity Commission keeping quiet.

So, who are some of the 5 that have been referred to the Police Integrity Commission?

Dave Madden

The most senior officer to be referred to the Police Integrity Commission is Deputy Police Commissioner Dave Madden, attached to the Commissioner's office. He was involved in media liaison during the Macquarie Fields riots, as well as media liaison when he announced (1 hour before the running of the Melbourne Cup) that the alcohol blood sample was not received by police after it was taken by former judge, Justice Shaw, after Justice Shaw was involved in a drink-driving incident.

Dave Madden was the former Bankstown local area commander where in October 2000 he was appointed as Director of Education Services at the Goulburn Police Academy. Dave Madden was replaced at Bankstown local area command by Peter Parsons.

Peter Parsons

Assistant Commissioner Peter Parsons has been a police officer since 1974, his father being a former Assistant Commissioner. He came to light during a series of high profile raids on The Block, Redfern, on 11 August 2000, which was criticised as being yet another orchestrated attack on Sydney's indigenous community for the benefit of the camera.

He defended the raids by saying "Police from city east region led by the Redfern Drug Investigation Unit are currently executing a number of search warrants on targeted premises here within the block area." According to the ABC World Today programme.

During his time on the job Peter Parsons has defended the granting of police bail to a man who was arrested on 38 (thirty-eight) charges, including kidnapping and sexual assault, against 9 women and girls, at least one as young as 13. Peter Parsons defended the application of bail. The man, who was not named, was a serving police officer at the time, according to the 15 March 2004 ABC on-line.

Bob Waites and Operation Florida

Bob Waites is Assistant Commissioner and heads the command covering greater Sydney. He appeared in front of the cameras during the Redfern riots over the death of TJ Hickey on 14 February 2004. He was the centre of criticism by a member of the Parliamentary Committee into the Redfern riots, according to Aimee Brown of the Centre for Independent Journalism.

According to Brown, Greg Pearce (Liberal) attacked the actions of Bob Waites, saying that the "lack of training and experience and disorganisation of the police during the night was compounded by Waites not following standard procedures."

Of more relevance now is the link between police line management accountability and 'Operation Florida.' The ABC PM programme reported 28 June 2004 that the Police Integrity Committee had just tabled a report saying that the culture of corruption in the police force had survived the Wood Royal Commission.

The report followed the end of 'Operation Florida,' which found widespread evidence of corruption, including police taking bribes from drug dealers to stealing cash and property, to planting evidence on suspects. During this time Bob Waites was in charge of the local area command.

The report referred to one police officer, Ray Peattie, who admitted that he took his first bribe of $100 in 1981, and that conduct continued for most of his 25 year police career.

As the heroin trade grew in Australia during the 1980s and 90s, so too did the amount Ray Peattie received in bribes. While taking bribes hand over fist, Ray Peattie at the same time as the Wood Royal Commission was going on in another part of Sydney' became acting crime manager at Manly police station. Manly was the very station that was brought in to monitor the performance of other stations in the command. Peattie, himself, wrote the anti-corruption plan. Bob Waites was his boss.

The promotion of Bob Waites led to a question being asked in the NSW Legislative Assembly about why Waites was promoted when such corruption was going on underneath his nose. On 17 October 2001 the then Minister for Police was asked (by Mr Tink, 17.10.01, page 17480).

Mr Tink: My question without notice is to the Minister for Police. In light of the Minister's promise in March 1996 that police commanders would be held accountable for corruption occurring within their command, can he explain why Bob Waites, the man who was in charge of the Northern Beaches local area command in the period leading up to Operation Florida, was promoted to regional commander on the very day the Police Integrity Commission hearings began?

The then Minister for Police did not answer the question and some of us may have to wait a very long time before the truth comes out.

A copy of reports into police corruption used to be found at Reports into NSW police corruption Now removed [10 April 09] from the PIC Website for the sake of cleaning up police history?

These include the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption, Operation Florida, reports on Special Branch, soliciting drugs, general corruption, etc etc etc etc

Assistant Commissioner Bob Waites again!

A clue to the devastating findings in the Coburn report [into the Redfern riots] was provided in some of the police evidence to the inquiry. Of concern was some of the evidence of Commander Bob Waites, who attempted to blame the subordinate on the scene for lack of proper response. Mr Waite's failure to turn up to the riot prior to 1.30 in the morning was not satisfactorily explained and his failure to implement correct procedures for example, locating himself in the correct command situation was not pursued."

- Greg Pearce, NSW Legislative Council Hansard, Standing Committee on Social Issues 10/11/2004

The Police Selective Commission

Ed: By and large any matter of police allegations or even senior police allegations referred to the PIC are just a white wash for all the community to absorb. Alleged legitimisation of the PIC. But only what the PIC wants people to see and that means the results are nul and void down the track, most of the time.

Issues that the PIC select are just that, a selection of police can do no wrong issues. But those police that don't do the Noble Cause Corruption for the government usually get referred and then found guilty and punished. Those that do the Noble Cause Corruption can have a job with the government until they retire.

By Just Us posted 26 April 05

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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.

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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.

'Police Integrity Commission' Why do you lie like that?
A Police Integrity Commission inquiry which took more than a year, heard more than 50 witnesses - many of them senior police - and cost millions of dollars, has recommended that no action be taken against anyone.

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 Integrity Commission' Why do you lie like that?
A Police Integrity Commission inquiry which took more than a year, heard more than 50 witnesses - many of them senior police - and cost millions of dollars, has recommended that no action be taken against anyone.

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.

A corrupt way to treat the community?

Detective Sergeant Steve Leach: Suicide

NSW: CH/9 Sunday: "The suicide of one of NSW's most senior investigators in August has underlined a crisis gripping the state's police service" [? police force.]

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?

Because solving crime then becomes a reason to get a promotion? As had been the case prior the Wood Commission into police corruption that led to all the changes in the first place.

That means more noble cause corruption, verbals and load ups as well as lots of innocent people being framed.

Then those who have solved crime? get promoted and lead the police force at the highest levels of corruption? [Clive Small].

Sunday: "Detective Sergeant Steve Leach was one of New South Wales' finest detectives, having helped collar the notorious serial killer Ivan Milat"

[? But Milat was Framed for the Tourist Industry.]

FIRM Friends of Ivan Robert Milat

Sunday: "He also cracked the 15-year old mystery of the disappearance and murder of Sydney schoolgirl Samantha Knight. Later he worked as a war crimes investigator in the former Yugoslavia.

Yet when he returned to Sydney, he was unable to gain a promotion to end his career as a commissioned officer.

He gave no reason for his suicide, but many of his peers in the police force identified with the shabby treatment meted out to him by his superiors."

[He never got promoted! Get the violin out?]

Sunday: "New South Wales, like many states and provinces in western nations, has reformed the fundamental principles of management and supervision of its police service. In the mid-1990s, the Wood Royal Commission highlighted corruption among the state's detectives and a lack of adequate supervision of police.

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?

Sunday: "The result saw sweeping changes to the structure of policing in NSW. In 1997, a new promotion system was established which no longer recognised the "primacy of experience" when assessing applicants."

[And no longer recognised noble cause corruption as in assessing applicants for a promotion based on skills they said they had!]

Sunday: "Detectives of Steve Leach's era found they had little chance of promotion against a new breed of tertiary-educated cops, who understood and exploited the system" [Clive Small?]

"Sunday spoke with a number of Leach's colleagues who talked of their own bitter experience of trying to adapt to the new system. They told of the despair they felt at competing with younger, less experienced colleagues and failing to secure even an interview for positions up for grabs."

The headkicker!

"Former NSW detective Mick Kennedy is now researching trends in modern policing for a PhD. He believes the root of the crisis facing Steve Leach's generation is a lack of support for field officers. "...all of the time that you're dealing with those murky, dirty-hands areas of work, what you're doing at the back of your mind ... it needs to be constantly reinforced that you're dependent upon your organisation to support you in times of crisis or when things go bad."

"Former Assistant Commissioner Geoff Schuberg, who compiled a report for the NSW Government on the promotions system, told Sunday that the new approach had destroyed morale amongst police. He and other former police warned that many senior officers were not qualified for the roles they had been given. The handling of riots in Redfern this year highlighted a lack of experienced decision makers among the new breed of commanders"?

"Meanwhile in Victoria, detectives are also feeling the wind of change as Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon tries to rid the force of corrupt police. Those she cannot charge with criminal offences, she is prepared to name and shame through parliament or sack using discretionary powers.

Legendary former detective Brian Murphy, believes that some officers are being used as political pawns as the top brass tries to reassure the public of the integrity of the force. [?]

[When Nine's Sunday program aired this story it's not surprising either. Corporations back more corruption in the community, so they too, can get their own way by being let off or not named, like the case or the Bulldogs Football Players pack rape for example!

But let me tell you that you haven't broken from the chain unless you see the reality that's behind this cry from the heart that would only encourage more police corruption.

There may have been a time when police had responsibility but they let themselves down.

The reality is what you have perceived in front of you all that time is what was actually projected from behind you and that monster is sinister. Some of us have 'seen the light' even more than once!

Now the police want to get a promotion for solving crime or loading someone up? Opposed to the Wood Royal Commissions recommendations that promotion should depend on academic skills that have been "attained" as well as "police skills" not just when some cop "claims he solved a crime" and now because of that should be promoted?

I have a reference from the Director General of this state that puts him in bed with the devil and I guess it all starts from there, considering he's behind the scenes no matter what party is in power.

And if Bob Carr is a crook what about the alternative John Brogden the Neo- Liberal slayer? Makes me puke!]

No link provided to the Sunday program because it doesn't rate!

By Propaganda Monster 15 November 04

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