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Civil servants need to return to standards of integrity and excellence in order to improve their image in the public eye.
Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the only way to overcome negative perceptions of the public service is to continue highlighting the positive traits.
"It's difficult to get rid of (negative) perceptions... you can't do that in just a day, even a year," said the Prime Minister.
"They (the public) will not notice any positive changes that we bring about because of the perceptions they have. So, the best thing to do is to continue serving the pe... Read more
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02 March 2006
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Ethics squad looks into latest
THE secret police files of a teenager have been sent to a man's home in another serious breach of privacy.
About 40 pages of police LEAP data were contained in packages posted to the man's home in country Victoria twice last year.
The envelopes contained his confidential police file, as well as sensitive personal details about the teenage boy and a woman, also from rural Victoria.
One LEAP extract contained potentially dangerous information about a firearms licence.
Another included details of a crime committed with a weapon at the man's property.
The files on the teenager and woman contained personal details including names, appearances, addresses and telephone numbers.
The incident is being investigated by the police ethical standards department and it is expected Privacy Commissioner Paul Chadwick will also investigate.
Sources yesterday said the mystery packages of confidential police LEAP data contained no cover letter or any explanation as to who sent them.
There is no possible way of knowing exactly how many people had access to the file before they were posted.
"People are supposed to be able to trust police with their personal information. How can they when this keeps happening?" said one source.
"They keep saying it is just a one-off, then another one-off and then another one-off.
"Police have a legitimate need to look at LEAP files as part of their job, but this information should be kept under lock and key."
Opposition Leader Robert Doyle said yesterday Police Minister Tim Holding repeatedly assured Victorians their files were safe, when they were clearly not.
"This particular example is worse than most," Mr Doyle said.
"We have seen some major stuff-ups, but this is a deliberate misuse of confidential data as well as a stuff-up.
The latest revelations come only a day after Mr Chadwick issued the first-ever compliance notice against the state's anti-corruption watchdog for leaking the police files of 490 Victorians to a woman called Jenny.
Under the order the Office of Police Integrity must call in experts to conduct an independent audit of data security.
A second report into the mistaken release of another 7000 pages of LEAP data to a prison officer turned whistleblower is expected this year.
The biggest breach of privacy in the state's history brought Mr Holding under sustained attack last year after he admitted he had not read a memo warning him of the leak because it contained minor errors.
The repeated breaches of the sensitive LEAP data system led to an angry Premier Steve Bracks saying he no longer had confidence in police to manage the files.
Mr Bracks announced he would set up a new watchdog to guard the files in the future and would replace the troubled LEAP system at a cost of $50 million.
A spokesman for Victoria Police said yesterday they could not comment on continuing investigations.
The spokesman said later police were treating the case as a "workplace management issue" and not a LEAP breach.
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