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Australia: CCC blasts internal police misconduct investigations
The WA Police Internal Affairs Unit has inadequately handled several serious allegations of misconduct by officers to the extent that it could threaten community confidence in policing, the Corruption and Crime Commission has found.
In at least four serious cases during the past four years, the unit failed to deal with the matters thoroughly and rigorously, while some allegations were incorrectly recorded by police as non-misconduct allegations, the CCC revealed in a damning report into the management of misconduct by WA Police released today.
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Ex-Police Captain Sentenced Fo
department and tampering with evidence.
Investigators said former police Capt. Elizabeth Wright doctored her work schedule to get paid when she wasn't on the clock.
The 25-year force veteran and the mother of a 12-year-old girl apologized in court and asked the judge for mercy, NewsChannel5 reported.
"From the bottom of my heart, I apologize. I'm horrified by what I did," said Wright. "I ask you for your compassion to let me be her mother, be with her."
Wright paid the city back with a check for more than $21,000, and Judge Patricia Cosgrove acknowledged that most defendants in the same situation would not get jail time.
But Cosgrove said that Wright was a police officer who betrayed the public's trust.
"There are people in our community who can barely get by, they don't have two nickels to rub together. You're making $75,000," Cosgrove said.
The prison sentence was suspended but Wright will spend 10 days in the Summit County Jail.
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