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Atlanta Police Change Policies
The Atlanta Police Department has announced a series of policy changes in the wake of a botched November drug raid that left a 92-year-old woman dead and three undercover officers wounded. According to Chief Richard Pennington, the changes are necessary to protect both citizens and officers in cases where police are relying on informants.
In the November raid in which Kathryn Johnston was shot and killed after opening fire on undercover officers breaking down her door, police said a confidential informant led them to the home. The man police named as the informant has since denied l... Read more
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OPI in new police blunder
THE Office of Police Integrity has admitted it wrongly criticised the state surveillance squad in a report tabled in Parliament.
It has been forced to retable the February report after embarrassing and damaging errors were discovered.
The latest OPI mistake comes after the Herald Sun revealed last week that a second lot of OPI hearings were invalid because the OPI failed to correctly set up the 2008 hearings, which led to criminal and discipline charges against several officers.
Former police union chief Paul Mullett yesterday accused OPI director Michael Strong of misleading the public by allegedly trying to hide the illegality of the 2008 hearings.
The latest OPI error involved reversing the results of a survey of Victoria Police surveillance squad members to make it look as though most of them agreed they weren't keeping confidential information secure when the opposite was true.
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Mr Mullett yesterday said the two recent blunders were further evidence of the need for a judicial inquiry to examine:
DOCUMENTS he has that he claims suggest the OPI lied about why the OPI probe into him and former assistant commissioner Noel Ashby was started in 2007.
WHETHER the OPI probe was politically motivated because senior Government and Victoria Police figures wanted rid of him and Mr Ashby.
WHY only he, Mr Ashby and three others were forced to attend OPI public and private hearings in 2007 when the OPI was aware of others with intimate knowledge of the issues being investigated.
WHETHER the OPI used false information to get warrants to bug phones.
An OPI spokesman yesterday denied Mr Mullett's claims.
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