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Flunking police passed in re-m
POLICE recruits at NSW's Goulburn training academy who failed a crucial course on police powers had their papers re-marked so they could pass the subject.
The re-marking was part of a push to get more recruits qualified in order to meet the state Government's pre-election promises about increased police numbers, one former staff member at the college said yesterday.
"It would appear they have lowered the bar, the pass rate, to get the numbers through," the former lecturer said.
The Weekend Australian has learned that at least 50 students in the group due to graduat... Read more
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Harassment, meds blamed for ex
A former Hastings police sergeant charged with misconduct this week for allegedly forging traffic warnings said poor eyesight brought on by medication resulted in an honest mistake.
Valerie Scharfe and her attorney said Thursday that charges against her are unwarranted and have resulted from repeated workplace harassment since she joined the police department 14 years ago.
Scharfe was charged in Dakota County District Court with misconduct by a public official, a gross misdemeanor, for allegedly filing 37 traffic warnings between January 2006 and January 2008 for drivers she had been found not to have contacted, and some who didn't exist, said Hastings Police Chief Mike McMenomy.
She resigned after she was placed on administrative leave in January.
Scharfe's attorney, Larry Schaefer, said workplace stress resulted in her taking medication that affected her eyesight and resulted in mistakes transcribing drivers' names and license numbers. Scharfe said she told her bosses of her vision problem, and after a brief period of leave, the problem was left largely ignored.
Scharfe said she resigned not knowing the nature of the complaint against her.
Schaefer said he plans to battle the charges against Scharfe, and is aggressively pursuing a lawsuit related to Scharfe's allegations of sexism within the department.
McMenomy said such allegations are unfounded.
"We don't have any idea what she's talking about, so there's nothing to respond to," he said Wednesday. "She never had any issue of being mistreated. She was one of our supervisory staff persons."
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