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Australia: Ex Vic top cop deni
Former Victorian assistant police commissioner Noel Ashby has formally pleaded not guilty to 11 perjury charges.

Ashby, 53, entered the pleas during a hearing at the Victorian Supreme Court on Monday.

The charges allege he lied under oath while giving answers to hearings by the police watchdog, the Office of Police Integrity, in late 2007.

Ashby resigned from Victoria Police during the hearings.

He was charged in July 2008.

Ashby once aspired to be Victoria's top cop and was also once considered for Labor party preselection.

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Police watchdog stays silent

THE Police Integrity Commission yesterday remained silent on a report it unfairly maligned a policeman, claiming the matter was confidential.

The Daily Telegraph yesterday revealed that PIC Inspector Peter Moss QC had overturned the PIC's adverse findings relating to Detective Senior Constable Timothy Briggs.

Mr Moss has found recommendations made by the PIC in its Operation Whistler report that Sen-Constable Briggs should be disciplined should be withdrawn.

The Whistler report, released publicly in December 2005, addressed allegations police used excessive force in arresting Allan Frederick Hathaway in Wagga Wagga in 2003.

The PIC report found Sen-Constable Briggs - who was not one of the arresting officers - engaged in police misconduct and lacked integrity and competence.

After Sen-Constable Briggs complained to the PIC Inspector, Mr Moss found he had been denied procedural fairness and that the evidence did not support the findings.

PIC solicitor Michelle O'Brien said yesterday the commission could not comment because the report was a matter between Mr Moss and Sen-Constable Briggs.

Police Minister David Campbell said inspectors' reports were not made public - unless the complainant chose to release the results.

Cronulla MP Malcolm Kerr, a member of the parliamentary committee on the PIC which has been sent a copy of the Moss report, said: "It's hard to justify not making it public. The public has a right to know."

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