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Police Commissioner backs away
Police Commissioner Howard Broad today denied he is using scare tactics in talking about the pressure to arm police with guns if they can't have Tasers.
Mr Broad yesterday conceded that there would be pressure to arm police if Taser guns, using an electric current, were found to be unsuitable in trials, the Dominion Post reported.
Mr Broad cited "strong forces" wanting police to carry guns but did not elaborate on who they were.
Speaking on Radio New Zealand today, Mr Broad again declined to name who the strong forces were, and when asked if the words were a... Read more
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08 January 2007
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Police officers face inquiry o
VICTORIA'S police corruption watchdog is to launch the first wide-ranging investigation into links between corrupt officers and organised crime.
The inquiry, to begin later this year and be conducted by the Office of Police Integrity, will examine whether organised crime networks have been protected by corrupt officers.
The investigation comes almost nine years after a war that has claimed at least 28 lives erupted in Melbourne between rival crime gangs.
The violence has coincided with a spate of high-profile corruption cases involving members of Victoria Police.
The decision to launch the investigation, which will be carried out under the OPI's "own motion" powers, follows intelligence pointing to apparent links between corrupt police and organised crime figures.
The intelligence is understood to include information provided by criminals to anti-corruption investigators about their dealings with individual officers.
Victoria's recent string of police corruption trials also heard of apparent links between corrupt officers and organised crime, including one detective who helped a drug dealer evade arrest.
The inquiry is scheduled to begin in the second half of the year and will also look at how Victoria Police management practices and procedures can be strengthened.
The OPI established its own intelligence database last year, which has been used to collate and analyse information gathered from sources inside the force and in the broader community, including Melbourne's underworld.
The OPI's intelligence operations are to be expanded to allow them to be more "proactive" and are expected to play a key role in the new corruption investigation. The OPI is also expected to use its special powers to access financial records of suspect police as part of the inquiry.
The OPI can issue confidential summonses on financial institutions, gambling operators and airlines to help build financial "profiles" of officers under investigation. Last year it served more than 100 such summonses.
Evidence presented during a series of recent police corruption trials in Victoria showed connections between officers and drug networks. At least one of the criminals involved, drug trafficker Mark Moran, later was killed during Melbourne's gangland war.
One convicted officer made more than $630,000 in profits in just two years from supplying heroin to an Asian drug dealer.
Former Drug Squad detective Ian Norman Ferguson conspired with two other police officers to supply at least 5kg of heroin to the dealer.
At his trial it was revealed that Ferguson had provided the drug dealer with "advice and assistance to avoid detection" when the man was on the run from other police.
Ferguson, who was sentenced to a minimum of eight years' jail in April, was ordered by a Supreme Court judge last month to surrender almost $1 million in assets.
Disgraced former senior Drug Squad detective Wayne Geoffrey Strawhorn was sentenced to a minimum of four years in jail last month for trafficking 2kg of pseudoephedrine to Melbourne underworld figure Mark Moran.
Moran, a major Melbourne drug dealer, and his brother, Jason, and father, Lewis, were all murdered during the city's bloody gangland war.
In 2004 police informer Terrence Hodson and his wife were murdered after a confidential Victoria Police document detailing information he had provided to detectives was leaked to Melbourne's underworld. An OPI inquiry later identified a police officer as the "obvious suspect" in the theft of the document.
An OPI spokesman confirmed the special investigation would be launched, but said he could not comment on details.
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