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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.

75

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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