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Three police officers and a prison guard arrested, and another prison guard gets sent to prison. Once again, we present the corrosive impact of the drug war on police ethics and morality in all its mundane banality. Let's get to it:
In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the former police chief is charged with leaking word of an impending drug raid. Former Chief Rolf Garcia and his 17-year-old son were arrested April 19 on charges Garcia told his son about a looming raid in February 2006, and his son called four other people to warn them. As a result, two men escaped the residence that was th... Read more
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OPI alleges policemen tried to
A SERVING and a former Victoria Police detective have been accused of trying to derail an underworld double-murder probe.
A police corruption inquiry yesterday made damning findings against Det-Sgt Dennis Linehan and former detective Paul Dale, saying they had a "high-risk" relationship involving conspiracy and totally improper conduct.
The Office of Police Integrity report, tabled in Parliament, alleges the great mates joined to undermine the Petra Taskforce investigating the executions of gangland informer Terrence Hodson and his wife, Christine.
OPI delegate Murray Wilcox, QC, recommended Det-Sgt Linehan and Mr Dale be charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, perjury and making false or misleading statements.
He said Det-Sgt Linehan should be charged with misconduct in public office and face disciplinary action and that Mr Dale should also be charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Mr Wilcox said Det-Sgt Linehan had admitted that when the Petra taskforce was set up he knew Mr Dale was a suspect in the Hodson murders.
He also knew Mr Dale was a person of interest in relation to the theft of a file from the major drug investigation offices.
However, he continued to have up to three or four conversations with Mr Dale each week, and in secretly recorded tapes they were heard discussing Petra.
Director of Public Prosecutions Jeremy Rapke, QC, will decide whether to charge the pair.
Premier John Brumby yesterday vigorously backed the report as proof the Government was effectively tackling corruption in the state's police force.
"We always said the OPI was more effective and would be better than any stand-alone royal commission," he said.
"Different governments have tried different things. If you look at royal commissions, plenty of headlines but few results."
But Opposition police spokesman Andrew McIntosh said the recommendation of serious charges against police once again proved the need for an independent anti-corruption commission.
"Anybody who thinks corruption begins and ends with Victoria Police, and those inappropriate relationships can exist only in Victoria Police, has got rocks in their head," he said.
Mr Wilcox also recommended homicide detective Calum McCann be charged with perjury and wilfully making a false or misleading statement to the OPI. But the Director of Police Integrity, Michael Strong, said a conviction was not likely and he would not send the evidence against Detective McCann to the DPP.
Disciplinary action has been recommended against Detective McCann and two other officers.
The Hodsons were executed in May 2004 at their East Kew home, and this week police announced a $1 million reward for information to solve the murders.
Mr Hodson had agreed to give evidence that Mr Dale was involved in the burglary of a drug house in East Oakleigh on AFL Grand Final Day, 2003.
Following the deaths of the Hodsons, charges against Mr Dale were dropped.
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