The Daily Examiner, 8 October 2018, p.3:
Two police officers have
been served with future court attendance notices for alleged offences related
to the use and access of a NSW Police Force computer system.
Police said the
43-year-old male senior constable and the 40-year-old female leading senior
constable, both attached to Northern Region, are alleged to have modified data
in October, last year.
The woman has been
charged with unauthorised access of restricted data and the man has been
charged with unauthorised modification of restricted data.
They are both due to
appear at Coffs Harbour Local Court on Tuesday, November 23.
The
West Australian,
6 October 2018:
A Sydney police officer
has been stood down after allegedly making sickening threats towards a Greens
Senator’s young daughter.
Sarah Hanson-Young was
targeted by what she calls vile, cowardly and intolerable threats at the height
of her public stoush with Senator David Lleyonhjelm.
But Ms Hanson-Young says
the threats went further, targeting her 11-year-old daughter in a call made
five days after her joust with Mr Lleyonhjelm.
“I have spoken to her
about it,” she said.
“Of course it’s a
difficult thing to explain.
“I was very shocked to
know that it was a police officer.
“It's disgusting and no
child deserves this, no young woman deserves this and to do it is not just
cowardly, it's vile.”....
Federal police charged
the 56-year-old cop with using a carriage service to menace, harass, offend
after raiding his south-western Sydney home.
The senior constable has
since been stood down and his employment is under review….
The officer will face
court next month and faces up to seven years’ in prison if convicted.
RELEASE
OF REPORT ON LECC OPERATION BALTRA
The Law Enforcement
Conduct Commission has found that a Leading Senior Constable engaged in serious
misconduct after he punched an intoxicated woman (Ms Z) in police custody on 15
September 2017.*
The Commission’s
Operation Baltra held private hearings to determine whether the officer
involved (Officer A):
1. Used excessive force
when he punched Ms Z to the head with a closed fist whilst her hands were
handcuffed behind her back.
2. [blank]
3. Breached NSWPF
policies and guidelines when he recorded the CCTV footage of the incident on
his mobile phone and subsequently shared that footage with a Snapchat group,
which comprised other police officers from Police Station X.
The Commission has found
that the punch with a closed fist by Officer A to the side of Ms Z’s head was
an unreasonable use of force and that Officer A engaged in serious
misconduct as defined in section 10 of the LECC Act.
The Commission is
satisfied that Officer A was in breach of the NSWPF policies and guidelines
with respect to his filming of the CCTV footage and that the dissemination of
it to other police officers via Snapchat was unauthorised.
Notwithstanding this finding, the Commission is satisfied that Officer A genuinely
believed that he was not breaching any policies or guidelines by sharing the
information with other police officers in his team.
The Commission’s
recommendation, outlined in its Operation Baltra report presented to Parliament
today, is that consideration should be given to the taking of action against
Officer A with a view to dismissing the officer pursuant to section 181D of
the Police Act 1990.
The Operation Baltra
report and associated footage can be found on the Commission website.
Background
The Law Enforcement
Conduct Commission is an independent statutory body. The principal functions of
the Commission are to detect, investigate and expose serious misconduct and
serious maladministration within the NSW Police Force and the NSW Crime
Commission.
The Commission is
separate from and completely independent of the NSW Police Force and NSW Crime
Commission. The Commission will treat all information confidentially and has
powers to protect persons who provide information to it.
* Codenames have
been used in the report to protect the identities of the involved
persons.
The Northern Star, 21 September 2018, p.1:
The Law Enforcement
Conduct Commission has found a police officer who inflicted multiple baton
strikes on a naked 16-year-old boy in Byron Bay used excessive force and should
be considered for prosecution.
The commission’s Operation Tambora arose
out of events involving the arrest of the teenager by four police officers in
Lateen Lane on January 11 this year.
On February 6, Channel
9’s A Current Affair aired mobile phone footage showing police
apprehending the boy in the early hours of the morning. The footage showed at
least one officer using a baton repeatedly to subdue him.
The teenager, referred
to as “AO” in the commission’s report, had been holidaying with his family in
Byron Bay at the time of the incident.
The investigation was
primarily concerned with the conduct of the police officers when attempting to
take AO into custody. This involved consideration of whether the decisions by
the police officers to use OC spray and a taser were justified in the
circumstances. There was also a significant issue as to the need for the use of
a baton on AO and, in particular, the number and force of baton strikes that
were administered to AO, particularly those administered by “Officer E” at a
time when AO appeared to be restrained.....
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