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UK: Two police officers are sa
TWO county police officers were sacked in the last year for abuses of their responsibilities, the Evening Telegraph can reveal.
The dismissals accounted for just two of the 82 misconduct cases involving a total of 59 officers which occurred from July 2006 until June this year.
The officers were dismissed following misconduct charges.
Both breached the force's code of general conduct, honesty and integrity, in addition one officer breached lawful orders and the other misused property.
Another case, involving an officer who committed a criminal offence, resu... Read more
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Australia: Rogue officers still blur thin blue line state OPI
AN OFFICE of Police Integrity report has found that Victoria Police has struggled to dismiss rogue police from the force.
The report, presented to Parliament yesterday, also said that police believed the line between what was acceptable and unacceptable conduct was blurred.
''The lack of an effective dismissal process undermines the effectiveness of a developmental approach to professional standards,'' the report said.
Advertisement: Story continues below The OPI said suspending an officer for a lengthy period on full pay was ''not economical for the organisation and is a poor result for the community''. It believed ''some would see suspension with pay as a reward for bad behaviour''.
Citing a case study, the OPI said a senior constable was involved in an assault on a prisoner at a suburban police station in February 2006. The OPI investigated and a year later the officer was charged with criminal assault. He was suspended on full pay and in October 2007 found guilty by a court, but not convicted. He was given a six-month good behaviour bond and resumed normal duties.
The force began proceedings against him and he was reprimanded. Less than a year later, he was alleged to have assaulted another member of the public and the next year was assigned non-operational duties. He was later charged with assault, suspended on full pay, convicted and given a suspended jail sentence. He was then suspended without pay and notified of a discipline inquiry, but quit before it was held.
In another case the OPI found that an individual had engaged in ''corrupt behaviour'', the force held its own hearing and transferred him.
Of the 102 employees, sworn and unsworn, involved in disciplinary hearings in 2009-10, only four were later dismissed; however, some resigned while under investigation.
''The low number of terminations for sworn members of Victoria Police in recent years supports the conclusion that dismissal remains difficult for Victoria Police,'' the OPI found.
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