Establishing a Positive Culture in WA Police

Establishing a Positive Culture in WA Police



Establishing a Positive Culture in WA Police

Australians Against Corruption (AAC) has a huge file of police corruption in Western Australia, which is out of all proportion to the relatively small size of the police force in that state. This indicates that corruption is not out of control. On October 14, 1997, a Federal Parliamentary (Senate) Research was presented substantial evidence at a hearing in Melbourne, Bob Falconer stating that the current WA Police Commissioner was involved in serious corruption cases in Victoria in the 1990s when the head of police internal investigations section of that state, either on paper to facilitate or conceal the illegal police activity.

Time constraints prevent AAC to put much of this material on the World Wide Web, but we hope to become the focus of the books in the future. Avon Lovell has written several books on corruption in Western Australia, particularly La Cosa Mickelberg and Image of Split. The WA police force has tried to ban books and was a series of vexatious libel written about the author. Notably, the author of that book, Avon Lovell, wrote a preface for the book by Raymond Hoser, Hoser Files, which was about police corruption in Victoria. That book was banned by the police illegally Victoria, following the unprecedented pressure on the media and book distributors. Despite this prohibition, the first printing has sold out and the book has been reprinted to meet demand.

Throughout the decade of 1990 there was widespread public concern about police activities, and weaknesses in the internal integrity, resulting in the development of Labour's parliamentary opposition a draft mandate for a royal commission proposal . In 2002, the Kennedy Royal Commission began to examine aspects of performance and service culture. Concluded in 2004, finding that

... whole range of corrupt or criminal conduct attacks to steal, perjury, drug dealing and improper disclosure of confidential information have been examined. [The Western Australia Police] has been ineffective in control of events and changing its procedures for dealing with the conduct and prevent its recurrence. ... The fact that WAPS remain in a number of officers involved in this conduct, and not only refused to admit it, but also consistently denied it vehemently, is a concern.

The royal commission investigated the death of 18-year-old Stephen Wardle, who died of a drug overdose while in custody at the jail east of Perth. [16]. The commission's report said:

"The royal commission has no authority under its terms of reference to go beyond determining whether there has been a criminal or corrupt conduct by any police officer about the death of Stephen Wardle. The evidence holds no claim that there was corruption or criminal conduct by any police officer or officers in connection with his death "

In September 2010 it published a video where many police officers tasered a man, while 13 times inside a police station. The incident led to the worldwide publicity and renewed ...