LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
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IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
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QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
Tag Archive: office of police integrity
QC Brendan Murphy heads new Public Interest Monitor to oversee IBAC Victoria
LAWYER Brendan Murphy QC will head Victoria’s new body that will scrutinise surveillance applications from police and the state’s anti-corruption body. The Public Interest Monitor (PIM) will comprise lawyers who will appear in courts and tribunals to test the merits of applications from Victoria Police, the Office of Police Integrity and the yet-to-be-established Independent Broad-based…
IBAC Victoria continues to languish without permanent Commissioner or experienced investigators
The Office of Police Integrity (OPI) says the development of the new anti-corruption commission has limited its ability to carry out investigations. The OPI will be replaced by the long-delayed Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), which is still waiting to have its powers defined in legislation. In its annual report to State Parliament, the…
OPI exposes extent of police corruption in annual report
CORRUPT cops are tipping off criminals about imminent raids and arrests, the police watchdog claimed today. The Office of Police Integrity said it was being hampered in its bid to catch these bent police by the “code of silence” too many of them used to protect themselves and fellow officers. Its annual report, which was…
IBAC Victoria experiences staffing cuts despite not yet being up and running
VICTORIA’S new independent anti-corruption commission will be subject to redundancies under the Baillieu government’s public service cuts, despite not yet being up and running. A recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office has named the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and its predecessor, the Office of Police Integrity, among a range of government agencies in…
Australian Crime Commission uses coercive powers to target people-smugglers
THE Australian Crime Commission has been using its “star chamber” powers in special operations to target people-smugglers by interrogating recent arrivals. ACC executive director Paul Jevtovic told The Australian that the secretive organised crime fighting agency was using all its powers to help the Australian Federal Police investigate people-smugglers. Among the ACC’s powers are the…
Robert Doyle counters Steve Bracks claims on his political response to the Melbourne ganglands war
by Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle STEVE Bracks is a good bloke. Decent and likeable. But his account of the Labor government’s response to the gangland killings, particularly of 2003 and 2004, is not my recollection. Either I was in some parallel universe or one of us has got it wrong. The so called “gang…
Noel Ashby and Paul Mullett complaint against Simon Overland goes nowhere as IBAC Victoria languishes in limbo
THE new anti-corruption body in Victoria is powerless to investigate criminal allegations against former police chief Simon Overland, two members of his senior command and an Office of Police Integrity executive because of an impasse between the state and federal governments. Former Victoria Police assistant commissioner Noel Ashby and police union secretary Paul Mullett have…
Office of Police Integrity chief Ron Bonighton named as interim head of IBAC Victoria
Victoria’s new anti-corruption body remains without a permanent leader and a timetable to start its investigating duties. Office of Police Integrity (OPI) chief Ron Bonighton was named the interim head of the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) on Thursday. He will head both agencies concurrently, with the police corruption watchdog eventually to be subsumed into…
Doubt shed on reliability of Operation Briars mystery police informer Jack Price
A TRIPLE gangland killer whose “show-stopper” allegations led to the biggest police investigation in Victorian history was allowed out of jail to walk on the beach with his partner and pet dog, and given a tax break and proceeds-of-crime exemptions in exchange for his co-operation with police, says an underworld associate who served time with…
Victorian Law Institute claims IBAC Victoria legislation is flawed
MATT PEACOCK: Legislation establishing Victoria’s new anti-corruption commission is flawed and should be re-drafted, according to its legal critics. The Victorian Government’s already almost a year late in setting up the body to be known as “IBAC”. But the minister responsible has reacted angrily to the criticism, claiming the Victorian Law Institute is engaged in…
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