|
|
|
| NEWS > 29 April 2008 |
Other related articles:
Coomassie lauds Ribadu over an
Former Inspector-General of Police Ibrahim Coomassie has saluted Deputy Commissioner of Police Nuhu Ribadu for boosting the image of the police force.
Coomassie told newsmen in Kaduna at the weekend that the appointment of Ribadu as the head of EFCC, the federal government’s anti-graft agency, was an image booster for the police.
He dismissed insinuations that Ribadu, by virtue of his rank, was not capable of heading the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
“What matters most in the fight against corruption is integrity and honesty, not the rank of the officer s... Read more
|
 Article sourced from
|
|
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
29 April 2008
This article appeared in the above title/site.
To view it in its entirity click this link.
|
Toronto Police Service
|
Police blamed for drug probe d
A Crown attorney's warning that the prosecution of six drug squad officers was in jeopardy because Toronto police weren't doing enough to help is indicative of a broader desire within the service to "sweep it all under the carpet," says the lawyer who represented two original complainants.
"My greatest concern is the way the investigation was stacked against the prospect of any finding of systemic corruption or misconduct," Peter Biro said yesterday.
The largest police corruption case in Canadian history collapsed in January after a judge tossed out the charges, blaming the "glacial pace" of the prosecution for denying the accused their right to a timely trial.
The Crown has since appealed.
Less than two years earlier, Milan Rupic, chief counsel on the case, who works at the attorney general's Crown law office, wrote a letter to RCMP Insp. Peter Goulet of the Special Task Force that conducted the original three-year, $8 million investigation.
In it, Rupic said the Toronto Police Service was not carrying its weight to ensure the case would be ready for trial
"A day of reckoning is upon us. Frankly, I am skeptical that the TPS is capable of marshalling the necessary resources to do what is necessary on a case of this type," Rupic wrote in the March 29, 2006 letter.
Rupic was also dismayed by the selection of an officer who was supposed to become "the new detective sergeant, but who possessed no case management experience. This is not a case for inexperienced officers; they will get eaten up alive."
He also noted the police work to date had been "barely satisfactory" for the purposes of the preliminary inquiry, adding the investigative team is "exhausted and in the process of retiring and so far there as been no orderly transfer of responsibilities to a new team."
Three years earlier, then-RCMP Chief Supt. John Neily, who led the special task force, had written to the Crown law office about problems he said he was experiencing.
"The Toronto Police Service has and continues to put significant resources into this investigation, literally into the millions of dollars," he said in his March 17, 2003 letter.
"Yet each time an issue is raised requiring a response from your office, I have to meet with a new attorney, bring them up to date on the complexities of this case and then await the next crisis ..."
Biro said he believes Neily and others on the task force "wanted to get to the truth." But he said Neily's final report, made public last week, shows he wasn't allowed to operate independently. "The appointment of the task force was as much an exercise in public relations and an effort to shield the force from the public scrutiny that a public inquiry would have brought to bear ..."
He points to a section in Neily's report that discusses allegations against another group of drug squad officers that weren't probed.
At Queen's Park, Attorney General Chris Bentley wouldn't comment because of the appeal.
"There is going to be a very public review of the circumstances that led to the trial judge's decision in the specific case," he said.
"It'll be heard in a very public forum, in the Court of Appeal, which will examine the history, facts and circumstances. ... We've taken steps to expedite that."
|
| |
 EiP Comments:
|
|---|
|
| |
* We have no wish to infringe the copyright of any newspaper or periodical. If you feel that we have done so then please contact us with the details and we will remove the article. The articles republished on this site are provided for the purposes of research , private study, criticism , review, and the reporting of current events' We have no wish to infringe the copyright of any newspaper , periodical or other works. If you feel that we have done so then please contact us with the details and where necessary we will remove the work concerned.
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
 |
Ethics in Policing, based in the UK, provide information and advice about the following:
Policing Research | Police News articles | Police Corruption | International Policing | Police Web Sites | Police Forum | Policing Ethics | Police Journals | Police Publications |
|
| |
|
