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NEWS.com.au - Australia
21 July 2007
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Australia: Police use Einfeld
SEVERAL police officers are under investigation for allegedly using the so-called "Einfeld defence" to avoid paying traffic fines.
The Police Integrity Commission will today launch its investigation into claims some officers had signed false statutory declarations to challenge the fines.
It claims to have already identified "a number of serving and former NSW Police officers and other persons it believes have supplied false particulars in relation to traffic fines".
"The commission is investigating whether any serving or former NSW Police officers have been involved in police misconduct or criminal activity by making false statutory declarations or providing false information to avoid traffic fines," the PIC said.
It is understood there are several current and former officers under investigation.
The investigation is believed to revolve around allegations that officers provided false statutory declarations after being issued with infringement notices by the State Government's Office of State Revenue (OSR).
These statements allegedly falsely implicated people such as the person's partner for being responsible for offences captured on fixed RTA cameras.
Former Federal Court Marcus Einfeld is currently facing 14 charges - including perjury, perverting the course of justice and making and using a false instrument - after allegedly falsely nominating another driver on a statutory declaration.
He alleged in court last year that US Professor Teresa Brennan was driving his Lexus when it was clocked speeding at Mosman. The Daily Telegraph exclusively revealed the woman had died three years earlier.
Mr Einfeld is vigorously fighting the charges.
If the allegations against the police officers stack up, they could face charges of perverting the course of justice, obtaining benefit by deception, or making a false statutory declaration.
Anyone whose car is snapped on a speed or red light camera - and who believed they were not the driver at the time of the offence - can challenge the fine by providing a statutory declaration to the State Debt Recovery Office.
The OSR then redirects the infringement notice to the driver nominated in the statutory declarations.
An OSR spokesman said if the statutory declaration was later found to be false, criminal charges could be pursued against the person who lodged it.
A public notice from the PIC published in today's Saturday Daily Telegraph calls on police officers and members of the public with any information on the matter to contact them.
PIC spokesman John Renshaw said the investigation did not stem from the Einfeld enquiry.
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