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Witness: Police probe unethica
The wife of one of three former Rotorua police officers accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a girl has described the investigation as "shameless, unethical and unprofessional".
Sharon Shipton, who is the wife of Bradley Shipton, made the accusation yesterday in the High Court at Auckland after being asked why she did not tell the police investigation team about where her husband was in February 1984.
"I didn't want to assist [the police] in any way.
"I have read, I have seen, I have heard what I consider shameless, unethical and unprofessional conduct... Read more
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CBS 4 - Miami,FL,USA
25 January 2007
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Police-Corruption Unit: A Test
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.
The ordinance is about whether the Miami-Dade police department should any longer be allowed to “provide law enforcement services in public corruption matters involving Miami-Dade county officers and employees” .
The view among some commissioners and observers is this is a litmus test over the new powers of the mayor, and what checks and balances the commissioners can place on him.
If the public-corruption unit were taken away from the Miami-Dade police, the ordinance would give these powers to other state law enforcement agencies. The mayor who headed the Miami-Dade police department for seven years has threatened to veto such a measure.
In essence, the commissioners are asking that corruption investigations of county officials should be overseen by other than county government. Some of the mayor’s new powers are to oversee county employees, agency heads, with the ability to fire and hire.
Bill sponsor Carlos Gimenez said he wants to keep funding public-corruption probes, but have them overseen by an outside agency; otherwise, he said, the mayor has new power to hire and fire the police chief.
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