Police investigating Police !

What does it take to finally get the system changed so that police no longer carry out the investigation when police misconduct is suggested !   Such investigations need to be carried out by an independent body to prevent police conspiring together to rig the evidence and hide police guilt.

We are now presented with a report from the Police Integrity Commission ( PIC ) which calls for " sackings and disciplinary action " in a case where a mentally disturbed man trying to harm himself was shot dead by a police officer.    This happened in the presence of paramedic witnesses, but the PIC contends that other police deliberately gave false evidence to cover up a true appraisal of how this event occurred.    It seems to be another case of police closing ranks and lying to protect one of their own.

The police were embarrassed when evidence was presented in court that clearly showed that a police prosecutor was withholding evidence that would clear two men charged with a murder.   To their shame, this evidence was stolen from a police vehicle - and when the criminal examined it and realised it's content he handed it to the defence attorney - who gleefully brought it to the courts attention and was able to prove that it had been known to police while they continued to prosecute the case.

Then there is the retribution being delivered to Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox, who disclosed that a " Catholic Mafia " within senior police ranks was sabotaging investigations into paedophile priests to preserve the reputation of the church.   A senior crime manager has been trying to discredit him - by laying accusations that he is a " lying zealot ".

It is a fact of life that police are ordinary human beings - and that under pressure they will distort the truth and conspire together to avoid being held responsible for their mistakes - and in doing so - innocent people suffer and sometimes do jail time for crimes for which they are innocent.

Obviously, the police will resist a move to an independent investigator, but the evidence is now unmistakable that the present system is not working !