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Police to enforce disciplinary
The Police Commissioner Gary Nelson is taking firm steps to enhance the disciplinary unit within the Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda in an effort to instil order among members of the force.
“I truly want the Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda to move forward and from what I can see, the officers that I am meeting with from day to day want the same thing,” Nelson said during a press conference yesterday.
The disciplinary unit will be called the Professional Standards Unit and is headed by Assistant Commissioner Davidson Whyte. It will deal with matte... Read more
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El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
08 April 2009
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Bill targets corruption: Texas
special unit of Texas' top police force would be dedicated to investigating corrupt lawmen, especially on the border, under a measure approved Tuesday by a panel of state senators.
"Though it is rare a law enforcement officer may give in to a criminal bribe, the threat is very dangerous," said state Sen. John Carona, R-Dallas, who wrote the bill.
It would create a unit of Texas Rangers who would focus on investigating law officers who become entangled in the lucrative drug trade. Some law enforcement groups opposed the bill, saying the special unit could become overzealous.
"We're very proud of our integrity as law enforcement officers, and we work very hard to clean our own ranks," said Tom Gaylor, deputy executive director of the Texas Municipal Police Association.
Carona said his measure was not meant to cast suspicion on police, but to prevent what he expected would be an onslaught of temptation from increasingly wealthy, powerful and brazen gangs and drug cartels based in Mexico.
"We want to be prepared for what's upon us," he said.
Last year, Starr County Sheriff Reymundo Guerra and Hidalgo County sheriff's Deputy Emmanuel Sanchez became the latest in a long history of border law enforcement officers accused of helping the criminals they are entrusted to fight.
Their departments were among many that received money from Gov. Rick Perry to participate in state-led border security efforts that began in 2005. From 2005 to 2008, their two counties received more than $4.8 million in state and federal grants through Perry.
The U.S. Department of Justice last year handed up a 19-count indictment against Guerra, accusing him of conspiring with drug traffickers to move and sell marijuana and cocaine.
Sanchez resigned from his job and was arrested in Georgia with $950,000 of alleged drug money hidden in his truck. He later fled to Mexico.
In 2006, El Paso FBI Special Agent in Charge Hardrick Crawford was sentenced to six months in prison, convicted of making false statements about gifts he received and of concealing information about his friendship with a Juárez racetrack owner suspected of drug trafficking and money laundering.
A Laredo senior U.S. Border Patrol agent and his brother pleaded in guilty in 2005 to taking bribes to allow drugs through border checkpoints. Another Starr County sheriff, Eugenio "Gene" Falcon, in 1998 was convicted of taking kickbacks from a bail bondsman. As far back as 1994, a Zapata County sheriff pleaded guilty to taking bribes from undercover agents posing as drug dealers.
Last year, lawmakers spent more than $110 million on border security operations, and they are poised to spend more this year. As the state increases spending for those efforts, ensuring that the money is used appropriately becomes more critical, said Laura Martin, a policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas.
"There is an incredibly large and dangerous temptation with the activities of the cartels in the border region," she said.
But Charley Wilkison, political and legislative director for the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, told lawmakers that departments have been able to root out bad cops on their own. He said a Texas Rangers unit could take away authority from district attorneys.
"You're solving a problem that hasn't happened yet," Wilkison said.
El Paso County sheriff's spokesman Jesse Tovar said any allegations of wrongdoing by officers in the department were fully investigated. The sheriff's office, he said, would assist any agency trying to root out wrongdoing by officers.
"We hold ourselves to a higher standard than the average worker at any other establishment," he said.
The bill next moves to the full Senate for a vote.
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