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It happened five years ago, and Todd Graeff would rather not talk about it.
As police chief in Manor Township, he's got bigger fish to fry. No sense in rehashing old news.
Except that old news has been in the headlines recently.
Last month, the Reading Eagle newspaper reported that Graeff, a former police officer in Berks County's Muhlenberg Township, had been reprimanded by the Pennsylvania Ethics Commission earlier this year for taking a 2003 college course in Ireland that he claimed was work-related but wasn't. Muhlenberg Township paid $1,500 toward the $2,700 tuition,... Read more
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The Nation Newspaper - Bridget
12 November 2007
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Keeping police corruption at b
TALK OF CORRUPTION and the first thoughts that come to mind link it to politicians. Nowadays, however, with the influence wielded by "drug lords" with their bulging money bags, it is more than a mere suspicion that the greed of a number of police officers can make them easy candidates for corruption. That is why the plans afoot to weed out corrupt law enforcement officers from the ranks of regional police forces have attracted more than passing interest.
Experts from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have been training a select group of regional policemen in using the polygraph to spot fellow officers among them who have been corrupted by drug money.
A spokesman for the RCMP, in giving the reason for the move, noted that corruption in the police forces in the region was of such "grave concern that governments and the ministries of national security feel that itis of enough importance to have developed these truth verification teams".
At the same time we should not believe that the use of the polygraph will not be resisted or that it will be just a done deal.
Evil-minded people can be expected to resist attempts to identify them. The use of lie-detectors is not common in
our jurisdictions and we might even require legislation to permit their use as a source of evidence. Once that hurdle is overcome, we will then find that suspects will try their utmost to prove the lie-detectors wrong as is done in other places where the polygraphs have been in use for years.
For all that, lie-detectors can be useful in determining when people are not telling the truth and the equipment, according to the RCMP spokesman, had been most helpful in flushing out corrupt policemen in Canada,
For a start there will be four of these "truth verification teams", with one of the teams placed in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Antigua.
We will all be waiting to see how effective the teams will be when they get down to business. They may not be able to put the drug lords out of business but if they can curb their ability to infiltrate the ranks of the police and others, their countries will be grateful.
It is known that corrupt police officers not only hamper successful operations against criminals but, by passing on certain information to the criminals, they can put the very lives of their colleagues at risk.
One other hint the RCMP spokesman gave that is worth considering is that if police officers are not well paid they are often tempted to become corrupt. It is a point well taken although it is not always a lack of an "adequate salary" that encourages corruption.
Corrupt politicians are often among some of the most well paid yet they are prepared to go after a few dollars more. It is not easy to know what money figures guarantee that men would not be greedy and just want more and more.
Drug lords, for example, even when well heeled with their illegal gains are seldom willing to go out of business and cease being a problem for the society. Greed just spurs them on and on in their dastardly activities, and they are ever prepared to corrupt others for their protection.
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