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In a statement, Barnes added that the position of silence taken by other members of the police w... Read more
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Brisbane Times - Brisbane,Quee
22 July 2009
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Corrupt police officers expose
Police removed convicted criminals from prison for unsupervised sex visits with their wives and girlfriends in exchange for confessions, an explosive report into officer misconduct has found.
The Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) this morning handed down its report, Dangerous Liaisons, to State Parliament, warning of a slow creep back to the bad old days of the pre-Fitzgerald era.
The government watchdog probed 43 separate removals of nine Queensland prisoners between 2001 and early 2005.
Other evidence of inappropriate payments to criminals and prison rule breaking in exchange for information have also been brought to light.
The CMC set up Operation Capri to examine alleged police misconduct in relation to payments given to criminals following a series of complaints.
Twenty-five sworn police were eventually implicated.
In one case, police officers from the Dutton Park police station and the now-disbanded Armed Robbery Unit who had charged a prisoner with armed robbery removed him from prison on seven separate occasions in 2003 to interview him about unsolved offences.
At his trial in 2005, the prisoner said he had confessed to some of the offences because police had offered him inducements, including being allowed to spend time unsupervised with his wife in police buildings and being taken on home visits.
In another case, police officers secured a $5000 reward for murderer Lee Owen Henderson for information to help solve other criminal matters.
Operation Capri found evidence that a detective provided false and misleading information to justify the reward and Henderson later arranged for $1000 to be deposited into the officer's bank account.
In a letter of response, Queensland Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson said the service had investigated officers who were involved. Three officers are currently facing charges.
"Several others have narrowly avoided criminal charges," Mr Atkinson said.
"Eleven who were facing internal disciplinary hearings resigned before the hearings were finalised. Others with a lesser involvement have been dealt with via the services' internal disciplinary processes.
"Careers have been lost and lives ruined."
Corrective Services and police have since changed the processes allowing prisoners to be removed from custody.
CMC head Robert Needham said the most concerning aspect of the report was middle-ranking officers "either actively encouraged or turned a blind eye" to improper conduct.
"They cannot just blindly trust their subordinates to do the right thing," he said.
Mr Needham said he hoped all the state's 10,000 police officers read the findings to make sure this conduct "never happened again".
Police have the power to offer money for information in certain criminal investigations, but the CMC report found some officers - some of whom are facing the courts - had rorted the funds and acted in a way that was "improper, and in some cases ... dishonest and unlawful".
"While those officers who were the subject of our investigation made wide use of the powers afforded them under the Act, they largely failed to exercise or even recognise their associated responsibilities," Mr Needham said in the report.
"More generally, they took advantage of the authority derived from their status and standing in the community as police officers."
"It is inevitable that as time passes, slippage in the ethical standards of our police will occur," Mr Needham said.
He paid tribute to the "honest officers who refused to be drawn into misconduct, actively warned against it, and did not allow themselves to be manipulated by a criminal".
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