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Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney
05 August 2006
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Police bury years of sex abuse
A POLICE commander's report reveals a failure to stop widespread sexual harassment in the force, despite police knowing for years that pornography has been forced on two-thirds of policewomen, and half have been inappropriately touched.
Mark Szalajko, a former chief inspector, cited a string of studies in a report that shows the culture of abuse extends far beyond a sex scandal at the Police Academy at Goulburn that the Government sought to play down yesterday.
The Police Commissioner, Ken Moroney, said what had occurred was unacceptable but just one of many things he had to deal with.
But Superintendent Szalajko's report indicates the problem is more serious, saying police anti-harassment policies are ineffective because they fail to tackle a "masculinised" culture difficult to change. The policies are now under review.
Delivered in his personal capacity to a women-in-policing conference last year, it cites studies as far back as 1988 showing disturbing levels of sexual harassment, including one from 1995 in which 80 per cent of respondents said they had been subject to unwanted sexual comments.
Mr Moroney yesterday won the support of the Premier, Morris Iemma, and the Police Minister, Carl Scully, for his handling of the Goulburn college affair.
The Ombudsman this week reported that 23 officers had sex with students in 2002, with a further 18 sexual complaints since 2003, but yesterday Mr Moroney refused to reveal the whereabouts, ranks or duties of any of the officers, including the two worst.
One asked a student for a sexual favour to pass. Another sent a student a mobile phone photo of his genitals and asked her to bite a chocolate bar placed at his groin.
Both were transferred, but Mr Moroney insisted they could not be sacked, owing to industrial law.
Asked why he could not say where they were, he said: "It's called being the commissioner of the NSW Police, looking across a whole range of issues impacting on the whole of the state. Important as this issue is, it is one of a myriad of issues I've got to cover on a daily basis."
Last night his spokeswoman said the Privacy and Information Act prevented him giving any details that might identify the officers, including their present jobs.
Mr Moroney said the penalties handed to the pair, by others, were inadequate, and asked the Government to consider changing the law to let him sack officers when dissatisfied with penalties imposed by subordinates. He doubted any change would be retrospective.
All future complaints from the college would be reviewed by Mr Moroney, but he dismissed suggestions of a cover-up as "offensive", despite the Ombudsman's complaint that a freedom of information request about the allegations was refused last year.
Mr Moroney said he was tough on indiscretions, personally sacking 51 officers for misconduct in his four years as commissioner.
Mr Scully said he now expected any staff member who had sex with a student to be sacked, but questioned the Ombudsman's need to "suddenly release a very short report, which is essentially a six-page press release".
He said one officer who had been investigated, now serving in Sydney, had twice been denied promotion because the complaint was on his record.
Superintendent Szalajko's report says studies show police culture values aggressive masculinity, exaggerates heterosexual orientation, considers excessive drinking to be good but disapproves of breaking the "code of silence" about fellow officers' misconduct.
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