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WEDNESDAY, JULY. ́5, 1989
MAY
AFTER SO NO
"HOWEVER, ALLEGED CORRUPTION CASES WHICH HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED NOT COME TO
SEVERAL COURT FOR
REASONS. SOMETIMES, INVESTIGATION, AN ALLEGATION IS FOUND TO BE UNSUBSTANTIATED, FURTHER ACTION IS TAKEN, MR BARNES EXPLAINED.
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ΤΟ
AN
SUSPICION INVESTIGATION MAY LEAD "OCCASIONALLY, CORRUPTION IS INVOLVED, BUT THERE IS INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO AUTHORISE A PROSECUTION.
THAT ENABLE
TAKEN UNDER IN THE PUBLIC
"IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES ACTION MAY, HOWEVER, BE COLONIAL REGULATION 59 TO REQUIRE PERSONS TO RETIRE INTEREST ON THE GROUNDS OF STRONG SUSPICION OF CORRUPTION.
"SINCE
1975 SOME 20 POLICE OFFICERS
HAVE
BEEN COMPULSORILY
RETIRED IN THIS WAY," HE SAID.
OF THEY TO THE OF
EVIDENCE NOT UNCOVER IN CASES WHERE AN INVESTIGATION DID CORRUPTION BUT REVEALED EVIDENCE OF OTHER TYPES OF MALPRACTICE, WERE REFERRED BY
REVIEW COMMITTEE THE ICAC OPERATIONS COMMISSIONER OF POLICE FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION AND CONSIDERATION DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS, MR BARNES SAID.
"ACTION TAKEN BY THE COMMISSIONER IN RELATION TO
SUCH CASES
RANGES FROM WARNINGS AND FORMAL DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS, TO DISMISSAL AND COMPULSORY RETIREMENT.
TAKEN
"SOME 330 CASES WERE REFERRED TO THE COMMISSIONER OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS, INVOLVING 630 OFFICERS, AND DISCIPLINARY ACTION WAS IN RESPECT OF 476 OFFICERS," HE SAID.
MR
HAD BEEN ΤΟ REVIEW
THOROUGH SYSTEM BARNES NOTED ESTABLISHED TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION AND CASES WHERE IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT INVESTIGATIONS SHOULD NOT PROCEED.
THAT
A VERY
"THIS SYSTEM
PUBLIC IS SOMETHING FROM WHICH THE CONSIDERABLE ASSURANCE," HE SAID,
CAN DERIVE
BY
LAW TO PROVIDED TO ENABLE AN
OBLIGED MR
THAT THE ICAC WAS BARNES EXPLAINED INVESTIGATE ALL REPORTS IT RECEIVED OF ALLEGED CORRUPTION
THE
CONTAINED ENOUGH BASIC INFORMATION REPORTS INVESTIGATION TO BE STARTED,
THAT
"MOREOVER, EVEN IN THOSE CASES IN WHICH A DECISION IS MADE
THE
THE COMMISSION WITH
INVESTIGATION,
FURTHER
TO PROCEED REPORTS TO ITS OPERATIONS REVIEW COMMITTEE.
"THIS COMMITTEE INCLUDES MEMBERS FROM OUTSIDE THE AND IT ADVISES ON WHAT FURTHER ACTION MAY BE NECESSARY,
F
NOT
STILL
GOVERNMENT,
HE SAID.
AND OF THE
MR BARNES POINTED OUT THAT THE EFFORTS OF THE ICAC, POLICE, HAD BEEN EFFECTIVE IN REDUCING THE PROBLEM OF CORRUPTION.
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