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EDITORIAL: Unequal Treatment
QUEENSBURY---The arrest of a Queensbury woman this past week by Sheriff Larry Cleveland and the Warren County Sheriff's Department gives a troubled view of the unequal, disparate treatment of people in the county's criminal justice system.
It served as prima facie evidence of how Cleveland uses his lackey, Post-Star reporter Don Lehman, to deny people their right to a fair trial in Warren County, to convict people in the pages of The Post-Star and deny them any presumption of innocence as constitutionally guaranteed.
There would also seem to be prima facie evidence for a ... Read more
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16 November 2006
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Police recruit investigated fo
Police have launched an investigation into a alleged attempted burglary by a recruit while attending the police college in Porirua.
Police spokesman Jon Neilson confirmed to the New Zealand Herald the recruit was the subject of a criminal investigation.
"As the nature of these allegations is subject to investigation we are unable to comment further," he said.
The newspaper said it understood the recruit was stood down from the 19-week course after the allegation surfaced.
The rest of his intake graduated without him in early October.
National police training manager Alistair Beckett said if the allegation was not proved, the recruit would probably be allowed to return.
If there was evidence of an attempted burglary, he could face charges.
AdvertisementAdvertisementLast week it was reported that people with criminal convictions had been accepted as police recruits.
Management would not provide details, but said the convictions were all minor and many were diversions.
Accepting recruits with minor convictions was not new, police said.
Police recruitment manager Inspector Dawn Bell said if an applicant declared a conviction, police would run background checks and review their files.
They looked at the age of the person at the time of the offence and what had happened subsequently, and made a decision based on the merits of the applicant.
Certain convictions such as serious dishonesty, drug offending, serious violence, and drink driving were automatically rejected.
A police recruit was arrested last year after his fingerprints matched an unsolved serious assault.
A depositions hearing in Christchurch in May was told the recruit was linked to a 2003 assault and rape of a Christchurch prostitute after his fingerprints were taken during a training exercise six weeks into his training. His name was suppressed.
And in June this year, a recruit allegedly assaulted another recruit with a bottle in the college bar, resulting in a police investigation.
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