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3/09/2009
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| What a stupid thing to say! |
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By: ill_be_back@rocketmail.com
3/09/2009
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| Obviously some people still living in a dream, or soking too much of the dreaded weed |
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By: jellybeenz@rocketmail.com
3/09/2009
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| Jeez you would be in trouble if you were soking in it and smoking it!! |
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3/09/2009
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| Never touch the stuff myself, not even baccy |
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By: ill_be_back@rocketmail.com
15/09/2009
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THIRTY-five Queensland police officers have been suspended for serious offences including child pornography, assault, allowing a civilian to drive a police car and the misuse of a service firearm.
Details of the suspensions – all in the past five years – were released to Channel 7 under Right to Information laws.
Child pornography charges were levelled at two officers – a senior constable allegedly downloaded, purchased and possessed the material, while a constable was allegedly found possessing child pornography.
Other offences included threats to use police powers to harass and intimidate, interfering with a witness, destroying evidence, dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death, attempting to pervert the course of justice, traffic offences and allowing a civilian to drive a police vehicle and failing to report an accident involving the vehicle.
Three of the 35 offenders were suspended with pay.
Four of the officers were senior sergeants, four detective sergeants and four sergeants.
The Queensland Police Service said police misconduct that warranted suspension was a "rare occurrence" given that 35 out of a workforce of over 14,000 were suspended in the past five years.
Of the 35 officers suspended, 24 have been the subject of criminal or disciplinary proceedings, 26 have been dismissed or resigned, six are the subject of criminal proceedings and four the subject of disciplinary matters.
Six officers are suspended without pay.
The QPS statement said the number of officers suspended was "35 too many" and the service had a zero tolerance approach to criminal behaviour.
Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers said the majority of officers should be suspended with pay, instead of without pay.
"Often it can take the Crime and Misconduct Commission two to three years to investigate these matters and by that time an officer's life and family has been destroyed," Mr Leavers said.
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By: c.blogger_au
22/09/2009
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Not a week seems to go by without some new story about police abusing their position in some way, either brutality, criminality, corruption or indecency. And if the police service itself doesn't tell us it alright, then the police union will. It seems as ever that the law applies only to members of the community and not to those who have a monopoly on its enforcement (or selective non-enforcement).
A higher and exemplary standard is expected of those who enforce the law, who carry weapons pepper spray, and now tasers, who have the power of arrest over citizens, and who act with the authority of the State. Instead we get the opposite from a very visible and very apologised for minority in the service.
The hypocrisy of being arrested or fined for behaviour we see regularly perpetrated or condoned by the police and its union is intolerable. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, whether we speak of democracy, or of protecting the Community from a police state and a corrupt police service. From small transgressions a corrupt culture grows. |
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By: ill_be_back@rocketmail.com
29/09/2009
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| I understand the Queensland Porker Service & GoAnna the Blight get another blast on Channel 7 tonight |
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By: ill_be_back@rocketmail.com
2/10/2009
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A few interesting points
Police officer fined for urinating near poker machines
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,2 6152455-952,00.html
Firstly, despite all initial reports stating that this clown urinated on a pokie, the story has now changed to make it somewhat less disgusting. Doesn't seem to matter that the porker involved was drunk out of his tiny mind (which is itself an offence for both members of the public & the publican, but apparently less so when piggies are involved.
Secondly, there is the matter of 'pleaded guilty by letter', something I've never heard of previously. Anyone I know of who has requested similar has been told in no uncertain manner if they don't front the beak personally they will do time for contempt.
Thirdly, the magistrate 'fined Cavanagh $125 and ordered that no conviction be recorded' Hmmmmmm. Not even a decent slap on the wrist. As George Orwell wrote 'All pigs aren't equal'
Glenis Green
October 02, 2009 12:00am
AN off-duty police officer was so drunk he thought he was in the toilets when he urinated in a public gaming area at a Sunshine Coast hotel, a court heard.
Isaac Cavanagh, 31, who pleaded guilty by letter in the Maroochydore Magistrates Court to a charge of urinating in a public place, said he was "significantly embarrassed" by the incident which happened at the Alexandra Headland Hotel in the early hours of September 3.
Magistrate John Parker, who accepted the plea, commented that contrary to early media reports, Cavanagh had not urinated on to a poker machine but in a carpeted alcove inside the gaming lounge.
The court was told that the police constable, who had been drinking in the bar with friends, had tried to access the toilets towards a restaurant but when the door was locked he had apparently become disorientated and ended up in an area behind the poker machines.
A patron who saw the incident complained.
Security staff spoke to Cavanagh and he was late ... |
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By: c.blogger_au
2/10/2009
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| Perhaps we should join up so we can have no conviction recorded too |
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By: ill_be_back@rocketmail.com
2/10/2009
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Perhaps we should join up so we can have no conviction recorded too
Knowing my luck, Atkinson would be out of job by then & his replacement would consign errant porkers to traffic direction duties in Oodnadatta. |
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By: stealth666@y7mail.com
3/10/2009
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Secondly, there is the matter of 'pleaded guilty by letter', something I've never heard of previously. Anyone I know of who has requested similar has been told in no uncertain manner if they don't front the beak personally they will do time for contempt.
Thirdly, the magistrate 'fined Cavanagh $125 and ordered that no conviction be recorded' Hmmmmmm. Not even a decent slap on the wrist. As George Orwell wrote 'All pigs aren't equal'
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I am by no means condoning his behaviour or that of any bad mannered drunk but when our customers are released from the watchhouse for having a few too many, they pay a cash bail and then do not have to attend court. For matters such as this one, there is a form that the offender can fill in pleading guilty and the matter is heard in their absence. This form is available to all members of the public. It is very rare that a magistrate will record a conviction against ANYBODY for this offence. They will almost always receive a fine though. He wasn't dealt with (by the courts) any differently to anyone else.
It's the court system. Geez, you have to breach a domestic violence order (which is a far more serious offence) about a dozen times before they will put the respondent behind bars. |
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By: ill_be_back@rocketmail.com
3/10/2009
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For matters such as this one, there is a form that the offender can fill in pleading guilty and the matter is heard in their absence. This form is available to all members of the public.
Very interesting. I'd certainly never heard of such a thing & lawyers have invariably claimed ignorance. Probably not that surprising for such an avaricious breed.
I do think that a cop responsible for such actions should receive a significantly higher penalty. People in positions of trust and or positions of authority should be required to conform to very high standards, whihout which they can hardly expect the public to have any respect for their position. |
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By: stealth666@y7mail.com
3/10/2009
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Very interesting. I'd certainly never heard of such a thing & lawyers have invariably claimed ignorance. Probably not that surprising for such an avaricious breed.
I do think that a cop responsible for such actions should receive a significantly higher penalty. People in positions of trust and or positions of authority should be required to conform to very high standards, whihout which they can hardly expect the public to have any respect for their position.
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It might be a rare occassion but for once I agree with you in regards to Police conforming to high standards.
As far as lawyers are concerned. You don't realise just how many of them shaft their clients. So many of them are supposed to turn up to the watchhouse to see them before court and don't. The worst is when they come into the station and state that their lawyer told them they did not have to attend court and they would attend on their behalf and then find themselves wanted on a warrant for failing to appear because low and behold, the lawyer didn't show up either! I have a varied opinion with regards to legal representatives. |
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