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The Cape Coral Police Department has launched an investigation against a detective, whose father is chief of the department, amid allegations the detective groped a teenage girl.
Days after prosecutors declined to pursue criminal charges against Stephen Petrovich when the teenager abruptly changed her story, the police department has taken up pieces of the case for its own review. Police spokeswoman Dyan Lee would not specify what those pieces were Thursday, but she said investigators will look into new accusations and old ... Read more
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NEWS.com.au - Australia
26 October 2007
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Australia: Police union roaste
THE boss of the state's anti-corruption agency has taken a rare swipe at the Queensland Police Union, accusing it of being unsupportive and out of touch.
At a national anti-corruption conference in Sydney yesterday, Crime and Misconduct Commission chairman Robert Needham also inferred the union was guilty of playing political games.
But he stayed clear of commenting on union president Gary Wilkinson, who is under a CMC investigation for allegedly selling a union car to his wife at a heavily discounted price.
"The Queensland Police Union is not supportive (of the CMC) at all," Mr Needham said.
"They use the old 'bad apples' analogy and are not prepared to admit there can be anything wrong with their members."
He said the union publicly declared it would not co-operate with the CMC's inquiry into indigenous policing but has not tried to block members from providing information to the organisation.
The union has been critical of the CMC in the past but Mr Needham has stayed cleared of the argy-bargy.
Yesterday's attack was prompted after a delegate asked a panel of anti-corruption speakers how it fared with police unions. All spoke highly of the unions in their jurisdictions, except Mr Needham.
It comes as unpublished CMC research showed that after just one year on the job, officers were less likely to report misconduct.
Senior CMC deputy researcher Margot Legosz told the delegates - including representatives from WA's Corruption and Crime Commission, NSW's Police Integrity Commission and the Office of Police Integrity in Victoria - that of the police captured in the study, more than 60 per cent had at least one complaint about them referred to the CMC.
Ms Legosz said only a few officers were responsible for a large number of the complaints.
Since 2003, there had been a tendency towards cynicism among first-year constables and they were significantly less likely to report misconduct than recruits.
"What happens in the first 12-month period to have this effect?" she said.
She said almost 80 per cent of first-year constables believed they would get the "cold shoulder" from colleagues for reporting misconduct. The percentage was lower for recruits.
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