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Restructuring of police force
The Police Cadet Academy will study police structures in foreign countries following a move by the government to reform the Royal Thai Police Office (RTPO), the academy's director said yesterday.
Pongsaphat Pongchareon said national police chief Kowit Wattana has ordered the academy to prepare information about police structures in other countries and study the possibility of applying international models in Thailand.
The RTPO is planning to hold a seminar to gauge opinion on the planned restructuring from officers at policy-making and operational levels bef... Read more
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Fulton County News - McConnell
12 April 2006
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Trooper Charged With Indecent
A 17-year veteran of the Pennsylvania State Police most recently stationed at the McConnellsburg barracks retired within one day of his arrest on charges of indecent assault and stalking a local woman.
Forty-one-year-old Carl P. Dixon of Greencastle was arrested on Tuesday, April 11, and charged with two counts of criminal trespassing and official oppression; eight counts of indecent assault; and one count each of harassment and stalking. He was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Wendy Mellott and released on $50,000 unsecured bail.
Charges involving Dixon, who retired from the McConnellsburg station effective April 10, stem from incidents spanning December 2003 and January 2006. The victim is reported as a 32-year-old Caucasian woman residing in the borough of McConnellsburg.
According to investigating officer Cpl. Gregory Bernard of the Harrisburg Internal Affairs Division of the Bureau of Integrity and Professional Standards, Dixon’s initial contact with the woman occurred on April 11, 2003, when he assisted a fellow trooper and Fulton County Services for Children with an incident involving the victim.
An affidavit of probable cause revealed Dixon then began periodically stopping by the woman’s residence based on the precedence his actions’ were standard state police procedure. After relocating to East Poplar Street, the trooper continued visiting the woman while on duty.
In attempting to visit the woman on February 28, 2004, Dixon was confronted at the front door by a female friend of the victim. The friend lied on the victim’s behalf and informed Dixon she was not home. Dixon reportedly forcibly pushed his way into the home. The friend documented the incident.
Dixon continued to make numerous on-duty visits to the victim’s residence alluding he was there to help her obtain custody of her child. “However, Trooper Dixon did not take any action to actually help the victim gain custody of her child,” Cpl. Bernard stated in the affidavit filed with Judge Mellott.
Dixon also utilized a marked state police vehicle to follow the woman and her boyfriend throughout the McConnellsburg borough. The boyfriend, the affidavit revealed, felt intimidated by the trooper when he was asked not to hang around the woman.
A male friend of the victim related to state police he was present during several of Dixon’s visits. He could, at times, hear what was being said between the two. He also witnessed the trooper smack the woman on the buttocks. Dixon is also alleged to have touched her breasts.
On November 14, 2005, the woman began maintaining a journal of the incidents including an entry for that specific date and a notation to Dixon’s first sexual advance toward her. The journal included dates and times of the trooper’s visits. Cpl. Bernard further noted in the affidavit, on the same day the McConnellsburg substation received an anonymous phone call stating Dixon was at the woman’s residence.
Days later, the woman documented in her journal Trooper Dixon said he would stop seeing her when he wanted and would continue until he “got some of her.” To further document his sexual advances, the woman covertly hid a camera under her Christmas tree. The footage depicts Dixon in full uniform inappropriately touching the woman.
Following arraignment proceedings, Dixon’s preliminary hearing will tentatively be held on Friday, April 21, at 10 a.m.
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