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Two days after the public voted to give greater powers to Miami-Dade’s mayor, Carlos Alvarez, county commissioners on Thursday voted 10-2, in what could be interpreted as a restriction on his rule.
The vote is one step that allows outside agencies - not just the police - to investigate county corruption. It curtails the role of the Miami Dade police departments' public-corruption unit, which the mayor created when he was the county's police director.
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The Australian - Sydney,Austra
22 August 2006
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Watchdogs review has teeth
THE future of fighting organised crime, police corruption and terrorism in NSW will be placed under scrutiny this week when a parliamentary inquiry examines the roles of the state watchdogs.
The Committee of the NSW Ombudsman and Police Integrity Commission will hear submissions from parties concerned that NSW is top-heavy with powerful bodies that investigate the police.
One of the key subjects for the 10-year review of the NSW police oversight system is the force's Counter-Terrorism Co-ordination Command, particularly whether the Police Integrity Commission or the Ombudsman should have some role to oversee the body.
But The Australian understands that any application would be strenuously opposed because of the CTCC's stringent working partnership with commonwealth intelligence agencies, such as ASIO and the Australian Federal Police.
NSW police are expected to argue in the hearings, which start on Thursday, that additional powers granted to the force for fighting terrorism under commonwealth and state laws have not increased any potential for misconduct. The police believe that another state oversight body would only complicate matters, because the CTCC is a partner dealing with nationally shared classified material.
Another body expected to come under close examination will be the highly secretive NSW Crime Commission, which came under fire earlier this year in relation to its handling of an investigation into alleged drug dealer Michael Hurley.
NSW Greens MP Lee Rhiannon, a member of the upper house parliamentary committee, said there were arguments on both sides as to whether organisations such as the PIC, the office of the Ombudsman and the NSW Crime Commission should be amalgamated.
Similar amalgamations to create a single state watchdog have occurred in other states, such as the Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission and the Western Australian Corruption and Crime Committee.
"Earlier this year, I moved in the upper house to set up an urgent inquiry into the NSW Crime Commission, but both Labor and Liberal combined to block this," Ms Rhiannon said.
"For too long, the Crime Commission has run its own race, free of any scrutiny of its investigations into organised crime and areas of corruption."
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