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Justice for police
I can’t imagine that you would find a media commentator more likely to speak in praise of police than me.
My natural inclination is to support the police and the police force.
But even I am having very serious doubts about the management of the police in Queensland.
I’ve spoken about the nudie run in the past week or so. It beggars belief that it has taken 5 months to “investigate” a moment of drunken stupidity.
I am told that no witness to the nudie run can unequivocally identify the particular officer(s) involved. The first “point of proof” in any criminal prosecution is identity. You need to be able to prove that the offender in the dock is the person who committed the crime. No proof of identity, no possibility of conviction.
I’m told that senior police are afraid of the backlash from the commentariat if they don’t end up prosecuting the police for the potential summary offence(s) associated with the nudie run. So they’re desperately searching for a way to go forward.
Someone needs to make a decision here. It’s that simple. Prosecute or write the matter off.
Today we learn that 2 years after a disastrously poor-taste “practical joke” in which police are alleged to have staged a fake robbery at a pharmacy, the investigation and disciplinary proceedings against the police involved are not yet finished.
2 years? The “joke” ended in an armed stand-off between the officers and undercover detectives.
How can it take 2 years to investigate a matter like that? As a junior constable I constantly had sergeants and other supervisors on my back to get briefs of evidence completed and submitted to the courts. The pressure was unrelenting and quite proper. Justice delayed is justice denied. It should be the same for our police.
Something is very wrong at the top.
Blog comments
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Michael,
I just want to say in response to+ the afore-written article, and in particular, para 2:
QUOTE,"My natural inclination is to support the police and the police force."UNQUOTE [MS 8/2/10]
that I, for one, could not agree more.
Thanks for a fine article.
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To Michael Friday 12 February, 2010 - 3:38 PM -
Framed Thursday 11 February, 2010 - 1:29 PM - I do not know the circumstances of your particular case, but I totally and whole heartedly agree with your statement the evidence across the board has shown the media, public service, the legal fraternity, social justice et al do not give a hoot when innocent people suffer harm at the hands of unethical, unprincipled, morally bankrupt and plain corrupt government officials.
Then comes the suppression of the truth by our only newspaper and by the television stations, which prefer not to draw attention to victims of gross miscarriages of justice and systemic corruption as I detailed in our case, which involves severe school bullying, courtroom abuse and the repeated and severe editing of courtroom tapes and transcripts to pervert the course of justice. And I also contacted the Anglican and also Catholic Social Justice Programme and all the other state funded and state controlled organisations, including the state controlled so-called NGOs, the alibi Childrens Commissioner etc etc.
It is evident the rule of law has broken down and we need a wide ranging and permanent (never to be closed down) independent Royal Commission by an independent, competent, impartial and above all democratically elected jurist, (not yet another politically appointed judge), who will allow the government to call the shots by setting unreasonable and unfavourable terms of references to curtail, narrow and dictate the investigation. In Sweden the Ombudsman can look into ANYTHING he needs to, to get to the bottom of the matter. That is what we need here in Queensland. I knew when Mr Beattie merged the CJC with the CMC, this was going to be very detrimental to our interests. I did not know then just how much it would later personally affect me and my son.
Jennifer Nash Friday 12 February, 2010 - 2:58 PM -
Yes, Michael, as you so well observe, something is very wrong at the top.
I was wrongly convicted and continue to be oppressed by corruption.
In the past, State Cabinet was making decisions on me 'outside Cabinet' and acting corruptly.
This, however, matched by as equally corrupt legal eagles who were also courrpt.Hand in hand is what it is all about.
How would you feel if you were wrongly convicted?
Does it matter that I am wrongly convicted?I will answer that myself:
The evidence across the board [media law social justice et al] is that no-one gives a hoot.
Now this doesn't say much about me but it says alot about those who for decades have wornged me silenced me and ultimately harmed me.
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Framed Thursday 11 February, 2010 - 1:29 PM -
the police no longer serve the people they are just pupets of the bligh circuc with top appointments by her and funding controled by her they have to tow the govt line. bligh is absolutly the worst thing to happen to queensland ever even worse than the jo era in my opinion
brent Tuesday 9 February, 2010 - 12:20 PM -
True Michael, you are a very big police supporter, however, even you will not and cannot defend the indefensible. We need a wide ranging Royal Commission into systemic Bligh Labor government corruption and this includes the police, who no longer serve the people of Queensland and who have long tossed ethics, probity and their mission statement overboard. When corruption is actually mentioned, it never focuses on the systemic political corruption, but much rather on theft, drug trading and brutality etc. But it is not just about what officers do, it is also about what they do not do from the top down. Their lack of integrity, probity and their willingness to use their position to obstruct justice and serve themselves instead, really harms innocent families. I have written to the Police Minister and Commissioner of Police, who have simply ignored us and our inalienable civil rights to access to public service in our very own country on equal terms vide the legally binding ICCPR (1976) signed by Australia and the following Police Mission statement:
To serve the people in Queensland by protecting life and property, preserving peace and safety, preventing crime and upholding the law in a manner which has regard for the public good and the rights of the individual.
Further details and coverage:
Speaker Of Queensland Parliament Denies Bullied Schoolboy Electoral Representation http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=96654
Governor of Queensland's charade and judicial corruption denial continues http://bit.ly/2jcBAY Attorney General Dick Stonewalls On Boy's Judicial Abuse Complaint http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/13/25940/1123
QLD Governor Silent on Judicial Corruption Claims Against Brother http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=621126
Armed Police Eject Mother From Queensland Parliament http://mathaba.net/news/?x=620379Jennifer Nash Tuesday 9 February, 2010 - 10:41 AM -
There seems to be a culture of police officers being above the law. This starts at the top and works it's way down. I was of the view that this was isolated to a few 'bad' cops, but am now convinced that it is rabid across the service. Maybe there should be a review of the Police motto "With honour we serve", who do they serve obviously not the community who pay their wages.
Andrew Green Monday 8 February, 2010 - 8:12 PM
