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Australia senior police accused of tipping off suspects in murder case
The Office of Police Integrity is examining several senior police who are accused to tipping off suspects. OPI began the public hearings yesterday. Assistant Commissioner Noel Ashby, Police Association secretary Paul Mullett, police media director Steve Linnell are all required to appear before OPI.
Dr. Greg Lyon who is assisting OPI said confidential information regarding the Chartres-Abbott killing were leaked through police employees. “Perhaps to feed factions, perhaps to destabilize, perhaps to even create a platform for their own further career ambitions,” suggested Dr. Lyon. “Yet some of the information sought and some of the information that was passed was neither factional nor political. It was purely operational information.”
“The end result was that some of that critical information passed into the hands of the very target of the investigation. Highly confidential information was deliberately sought and deliberately given,” he added. “The allegations for examination are all the more serious in light of the very senior levels of responsibility held by the people summoned to give the evidence. These people represent, in their respective fields, senior echelons of police management and of the union representing police members.”
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