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making complaints for which they know they have no concrete corroborative evidence, or in their adopting a low profile in their execution of their duties); one can only accept the situation realistically and formulate a realistic means by which the knowledge they have can be accepted, recognised and acted upon in other ways than securing convictions in Court.
To defeat the conspiracy we must first define it and to do that we must provide a means of taking the evidence which honest officers will want to give, evidence that would not support a conviction in
but which nevertheless tells us how widespread the conspiracy now it operates, and more important how resources can be ud and procedures introduced to contain that conspiracy.
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the report room. There was no pecific act of favour or for-
that the money was offered as Mary evidence proving that the of the officer in whose titlo
Imstantial evidence which
i do not want to labout a personal point but it is the principal primary evidence that I have and it is as relevant today as it was on 28th October 1962. A civilian employee at Hunghom station twice offered me $500 in the title of my Divisional Superintendent in my quarters not a moment's march f request from this runner for ar bearance and it can only be asi a retainer. There was and is no offer was initiated by or on behi it was offered although there is leads me to suspect strongly that
was the case. To this day I do not know who the principal was the time of the offer I had to consider a very difficult questi if I arrested or reported the runner,
having in mind the bo ess of both the anonymous principal and the runner, was I not pla ng myself in a position to be framed and, through a fabricated criminal charge, utterly -discredited? In the light of the incident and contemporaneous observations of other matters, I judged that I would so place myself at risk and therefore decided on another course of action - to do nothing and await events with the purpose of testing how high the obvious internal conspiracy reached and, if necessary, working to create a means of solution based on realistic assessment of all the factors. One might accuse me of cowardice and certainly the then Commissioner later described me on the basis of reports and other matters, as being impetuous although of course had I been impetuous I might have gone to prison for an offence I had not committed. If a conspiracy can offer money so boldly it is equally capable of planting it and providing sufficient circumstantial evidence and false testimony from criminals to secure a conviction. The critical fact is that the retainer was offered inside the Force: in about April 1963 I reported to the AC Branch an attempt by a civilian employee at the PTC to bribe me with $400 to secure a driving test pass for his friend; I felt able to report the attempt because it came from outside the Force and for a specific purpose.
What action did I take on the $500 retainer offer? As there was no confidence in departmental investigations (a fact whimpered about by colleagues of greater experience than myself and a conclusion indicated to be of value by the boldness of the attempt to draw me into the conspiracy) I had to discover upon which basis this lack of confidence was founded. To test the genuiness of departmental inquiries I made perfectly justified complaints on comparatively low-key matters concerning discipline and morale at the PTC. The departmental inquiry ordered by the Commissioner was delegated to thon Assistant Commissioner
It suppressed evidence, by number of dovices and, almost immodiately afterwards, I was discharged,
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