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VICTORIAN police officers will be forced to declare any social contact with criminals under a directive the police union says it may challenge in court.
A register of "inappropriate associations" will be introduced at the end of this month in response to evidence that police and civilians who work for the force are being drawn into corrupt behaviour after social encounters with criminals.
Assistant Commissioner for ethical standards Luke Cornelius said the policy was about relationships that occurred outside officers' normal work duties — not criminal informants or other cont... Read more
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Vietnam investigates policeman
A court in the central Vietnamese province of Danang has launched an investigation of a senior police official suspected of spreading information accusing Danang City leaders of corruption, a court official said Thursday. Major General Tran Van Thanh, chief inspector in the Ministry of Public Security and former director of the Danang Police Department, is to be investigated for his role in a campaign of corruption accusations against Danang City officials, some of whom were candidates for the National Assembly, several months before the election in May 2007.
"We have asked the Da Nang People's Procuracy to investigate Tran Van Thanh as a possible accessory to this act," said Nguyen Thanh, a judge at the court.
In the campaign, petitions and letters denouncing top Danang officials were sent to government officials and the media. The letters accused the officials of corruption in the privatization and development of a tract of public land in 2001.
The letters alleged the officials had embezzled 10 to 15 per cent of the revenues from privatization, had used the public budget for private purposes and had shielded others engaged in corruption.
A police investigation in May 2007 found the accusations groundless.
Police later arrested Danang police majors Nguyen Duy Phi Linh, 39, and Dinh Cong Sat, 43, and police lieutenant colonel Duong Tien, 52, then-editor of the Ho Chi Minh People's Police newspaper in Hanoi, for supporting the campaign.
In a trial that began Tuesday, the Danang City People's Court charged the three with "abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and/or citizens."
During the trial, Linh withdrew an earlier admission of involvement in the campaign, saying he had been coerced into confessing by investigators. Tien admitted his involvement but said he had received the information accusing the officials of corruption from an official in the Central Anti-Corruption Steering Committee Office.
Sat then also withdrew his confession, saying Major General Thanh had been behind the smear campaign. He said the officer had supplied the information for Linh, who sent the letters denouncing the leaders.
In return, he said, Major General Thanh had promised to help Sat, who was fired in 2006, regain his job.
At that point, Judge Thanh halted the trial and asked the Danang People's Procuracy to investigate Tran Van Thanh.
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