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Police nabbed in secret sting -November 24, 2005
THREE Victoria Police officers were suspended last night and are facing corruption charges.
It is believed they failed secret integrity tests, and will be charged on summons with a range of offences.
Their homes were raided yesterday and a number of items were seized.
It is believed the raids discovered an unregistered gun, several knives and swords, drugs, and allegedly stolen items.
The three detective senior-constables were arrested at Springvale CIU yesterday during a raid by the Office of Police Integrity and officers from Victoria Police's ethical standards department.
They were questioned for several hours by OPI and ESD officers.
ESD head Kieran Walshe confirmed the detectives were last night suspended on full pay and would be charged on summons with a number of offences, including theft.
"Following a lengthy investigation, which started as a result of information received by Victoria Police and which the OPI then joined in, we executed a warrant at the Springvale CIU," Assistant Commissioner Walshe said.
"Three detectives were taken into custody.
"Victoria Police is disappointed that these members have allegedly been involved in some illegal activities.
"But Victoria Police and the OPI are resolute that we will identify and eradicate corruption within Victoria Police."
OPI assistant director Graham Ashton last night welcomed the first arrests for the year-old corruption-fighting body.
"It is a pleasing result thus far in what is an on going operation," he said.
"It's a great example of the level of co-operation that can be achieved between the OPI and ESD."
The Herald Sun this month predicted the OPI would soon be involved in arrests of allegedly corrupt Victoria Police officers.
In an interview to mark the OPI's first anniversary, OPI director George Brouwer told the Herald Sun his investigators were closing in on a number of corrupt officers.
"We have got 36 proactive investigations under way, four reactive ones and 21 major complaints to look at," he said.
"They cover the whole gamut of corruption.
"We have identified a number of people on whom we have evidence which is incontrovertible."
Mr Brouwer also revealed the OPI's use of secret sting operations to trap suspect officers was about to be dramatically increased.
It is believed this was the method used in relation to the arrest of the three Springvale CIU detectives yesterday.
The OPI was created by the Bracks Government in November 2004 in response to calls for a royal commission into police corruption and a permanent anti-corruption body.
Victoria Police association secretary Paul Mullett this week called for the OPI to be scrapped.
He was commenting on a Herald Sun report that revealed complaints had been made about how the OPI raided the home of a policeman's mother.
Sen-Sgt Mullett said the OPI had not produced results despite its new powers, big budget and frequent public pronouncements on the alleged state of police corruption.
Police nabbed in secret sting -November 24, 2005
THREE Victoria Police officers were suspended last night and are facing corruption charges.
It is believed they failed secret integrity tests, and will be charged on summons with a range of offences.
Their homes were raided yesterday and a number of items were seized.
It is believed the raids discovered an unregistered gun, several knives and swords, drugs, and allegedly stolen items.
The three detective senior-constables were arrested at Springvale CIU yesterday during a raid by the Office of Police Integrity and officers from Victoria Police's ethical standards department.
They were questioned for several hours by OPI and ESD officers.
ESD head Kieran Walshe confirmed the detectives were last night suspended on full pay and would be charged on summons with a number of offences, including theft.
"Following a lengthy investigation, which started as a result of information received by Victoria Police and which the OPI then joined in, we executed a warrant at the Springvale CIU," Assistant Commissioner Walshe said.
"Three detectives were taken into custody.
"Victoria Police is disappointed that these members have allegedly been involved in some illegal activities.
"But Victoria Police and the OPI are resolute that we will identify and eradicate corruption within Victoria Police."
OPI assistant director Graham Ashton last night welcomed the first arrests for the year-old corruption-fighting body.
"It is a pleasing result thus far in what is an on going operation," he said.
"It's a great example of the level of co-operation that can be achieved between the OPI and ESD."
The Herald Sun this month predicted the OPI would soon be involved in arrests of allegedly corrupt Victoria Police officers.
In an interview to mark the OPI's first anniversary, OPI director George Brouwer told the Herald Sun his investigators were closing in on a number of corrupt officers.
"We have got 36 proactive investigations under way, four reactive ones and 21 major complaints to look at," he said.
"They cover the whole gamut of corruption.
"We have identified a number of people on whom we have evidence which is incontrovertible."
Mr Brouwer also revealed the OPI's use of secret sting operations to trap suspect officers was about to be dramatically increased.
It is believed this was the method used in relation to the arrest of the three Springvale CIU detectives yesterday.
The OPI was created by the Bracks Government in November 2004 in response to calls for a royal commission into police corruption and a permanent anti-corruption body.
Victoria Police association secretary Paul Mullett this week called for the OPI to be scrapped.
He was commenting on a Herald Sun report that revealed complaints had been made about how the OPI raided the home of a policeman's mother.
Sen-Sgt Mullett said the OPI had not produced results despite its new powers, big budget and frequent public pronouncements on the alleged state of police corruption.
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