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Advertiser Adelaide - Adelaide
24 January 2007
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Police and the public's right
SOUTH Australians have a right to know the outcome of disciplinary action taken against individual police officers before a secret tribunal.
In some cases, the reputation of an officer found innocent should be safeguarded and there may be cases where the wellbeing of officers and possibly witnesses could be jeopardised by publicity.
Generally speaking, the public should know when and why officers have been found guilty of either criminal or unprofessional conduct.
Existing legislation prevents the release of any information about the Police Disciplinary Tribunal, ostensibly to protect witnesses who give evidence against police officers.
It is simply not good enough for police to say – as they have – that gathering details of those officers who have been found guilty of criminal offences before the tribunal is is too time-consuming.
The Advertiser revealed yesterday that 29 officers have resigned in the past five years after facing disciplinary hearings but no details of the cases have been released.
The prosecution of motorcycle gang members alleged to be involved in drug laboratories is being jeopardised because of disciplinary action taken against a senior police officer – but police have again refused to release details of the charges.
Quite simply, SAPOL should be transparent and open to public scrutiny. The actions of police facing disciplinary charges are matters of significant public interest.
People have a right to ask whether or not there is evidence of corruption within SA Police.
Or are people expected to blindly believe the word of the State Government and the police that this is the only police department in the world which is free of corruption?
Education aims make sense
FOR too long, education standards in Australia have failed to keep up with the demand for skilled workers in a wide range of industries and workplace disciplines.
Federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd is right to outline policies which, he says, would create an education revolution in Australia.
Under Prime Minister John Howard, the Liberal Government has criticised teachers and slowly enforced an education policy based on the principle of user-pays.
Mr Rudd has switched the debate, arguing that education is an economic imperative and no longer an issue of social justice or community equality.
Mr Rudd says there are significant economic dividends which will flow from a better, more broadly educated, Australia.
In short, education directly relates to economic prosperity. It is a policy which has potentially broader public appeal – and a policy which the Liberal Government will be forced to counter.
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