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POLICE officers and public servants who held a boozy barbecue on North Stradbroke Island off Queensland during the spring holidays have escaped punishment.
But teenagers holidaying on the island at the same time were slapped with more than $10,000 in fines for drinking in public - the same offence committed by the same police officers who issued the tickets.
An internal investigation found that police and workers from the Department of Communities held an alcohol-fuelled lunch at The Keyholes, a popular picnic area and swimming hole.
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Republic of Botswana, Botswana
15 October 2007
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Botswana: Police service shoul
GABORONE - Police supervisors have been called upon to ensure that the police service is free from corruption.
Giving a keynote address at a police workshop in Gaborone, former police commissioner, Mr Simon Hirschfeld said it was a well-known fact that corruption was not necessary caused by low salaries, rather by greed.
Mr Hirschfeld said the government continued to do its best to increase salaries. However, he said more emphasis should be put on training and education of public officers, including the police.
Despite all these efforts, we all know that some of your colleagues have compromised and fallen by the wayside.
He said this type of behaviour could not be allowed to continue as it had the potential to tarnish the good of their profession.
In fact, he said according to statistics of the DCEC, the number of investigations launched against members of the Botswana Police stood at seven per cent of all the investigations conducted during 2006. This is the third highest in the hierarchy of the DCEC operations.
He said controlling corruption from the departmental level required a strong leadership commitment because it could take place any where from the patrol officer to officer commanding.
He said it was upon leaders to make it clear from the start that the police service was against any form of corrupt activity.
He said laxity in administrative practices could send a wrong message that minor acts of indiscipline were tolerated.
From my experience, it is the minor incidents of misbehaviour that promote unethical conduct, which leads to corruption, and compromise of integrity.
He said ethical decisions and behaviour should be promoted as a matter of routine and necessity for it was the corner stone of any professional service like the police.
The government can put in place structures such as the law, internal control systems, the ombudsman and perhaps the DCEC but ultimately your leadership remains vital in sustaining a high degree of probity to execute your mandate. said Mr Hirschfeld.
Mr Hirschfeld said the losses that accrue from a culture of permissiveness with respect to corruption include loss of revenue, loss of trust, loss of values, loss of credibility and legitimacy and a loss of the democratic ethics and impulse within institutions.
Mr Hirschfeld also told the officers that a well-motivated police service rested squarely on their shoulders. You derive confidence in the society if it can be known that the service you render is not for sale, but for public good. said Mr Hirschfeld.
Mr Hirschfeld said corruption could have a negative consequence on the lives of Batswana especially when it was perpetrated by an individual in a position of trust.
He said for corruption to occur in a policing environment, there must be misuse of authority by a police officer acting officially to fulfill personal needs.
He said power on its own if exercised correctly did not pose any problem, adding that it was absolute power that corrupts, hence their behaviour at all time must be beyond reproach.
You have been bestowed with the power to restrain citizens and deprive them of their liberties. The exercise of such power needs to be used sparingly but without compromising the standards, he said.
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