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Hundreds of police may have cr
SCORES of police officers in England and Wales have convictions for offences including assault, theft, possession of an offensive weapon and actual bodily harm.
Details released by 13 forces under the Freedom of Information Act show that 164 officers have been convicted of offences, some since they joined the police.
Of those forces that have so far disclosed their figures, Kent has the highest percentage of officers with a record. It employs 52 officers with convictions, almost 1.5% of its strength. Most are for traffic offences but the list includes criminal d... Read more
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Jamaica Observer
17 November 2009
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Jamaica: POA supports polygrap
THE Police Officers Association (POA) yesterday voiced support of polygraph testing for all police officers, saying that members of the constabulary must be held to a higher standard.
Chairman of the POA, Superintendent Michael James, said although there were concerns, all members of the association - which represents cops ranked from deputy superintendent to commissioner - have made themselves available for testing.
Results of the tests, which are conducted by American and Canadian officials, are not released, James said.
"We have absolutely no quarrel with it. The entire JCF is a sensitive area, hence we support it at the entry level and [for those] at other levels who are putting themselves up for promotion," POA member Senior Superintendent Glenford Hudson said.
In 2003, former police commissioner Francis Forbes indicated his intention to implement lie detector and integrity tests for cops seeking promotion to senior ranks and those assigned to sensitive areas.
Acting Commissioner Owen Ellington has also indicated that he intends to take that route and the POA has thrown its support solidly behind Ellington.
"We must be held to a higher standard. We must be intolerant of any semblance of corruption in the Jamaica Constabulary Force," Hudson told Observer reporters and editors at the newspaper's weekly Monday Exchange meeting.
However, James said there were still a few kinks to be ironed out.
"It is not legally enforceable," he said. "The fact that the tool cannot be legally sanctioned tells you that there are challenges of accuracy."
James said the constabulary was the only local organisation to have subjected its members to integrity testing.
"We can boast that most of our senior managers, the only organisation in this country, have subjected themselves to integrity tests and we are being asked to do that by people who sometimes don't even have the integrity to ask us," James said.
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