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Mr. Fi: It seems difficult, you know, for me to accept that a Superintendent will get 6,000 dollars a month, right away down to an ordinary traffic policeman on the beat getting 15, 20 dollars.
Interviewer:
Mr, Ellis:
I want to know, you know, how you know, this?
By an informant actually, a policeman
himself, but he asked me not in this case to name him for
obvious reasons.
Interviewer: I mean, has he, in fact, actually seen money being handed over to the police.
Mr. Ellis: My informant actually has been paid by this
whole racket.
Interviewer: To do what?
Mr.
Ellis: To co-operate with the rest of the syndicate. Interviewer: And how many policemen do you think are actively involved in corruption? Are we talking about 2 or 3 policemen in a station? Or is it.... are there more
involved?
Mr. Ellis: I think the problem here is a little more complex. You have officers who will be receiving and perhaps trying to
who intimidate other officer toractive. Then you have the
officers who are, in fact, being intimidated, in order to keep their jobs or to secure promotion, or to avoid trouble, will acquiesce in what's going on, they'll turn a blind eye. You have, on one side active protection and on the other side a kind of paralysis where nobody wants to be too active in case of trouble.
Narrator: Alan Ellis won the Baton of Honour at the Police Training School in 1962, yet he was dismissed a year later in the interests of the force. Ellis believes he was
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