Thanks to Peter Wellington MP - The Peoples Voice, not a Partys Puppet White collar crime and political corruption- not a police priority Commissioner of Police Ian Stewart admitted at today’s Estimates Hearings that a team of just five police assessed white collar crime and allegations of political corruption. A few months ago during the police blitz on anyone who dared ride a motor bike, we saw on prime time television five police interrogating a motor bike rider they pulled over for no other reason than because they could. Now we see the same number of police, five, assessing millions of dollars of white collar crime and investigating political corruption. Let’s do the sums, five watching a bike rider interrogation and five to combat major white collar crime and corruption. It paints a picture of police priorities. And while I listened to the Police Minister praising the Newman Government’s success in fighting crime and touting fudged crime statistics, he didn’t say a word about his achievements in tackling political corruption and white collar crime. Plainly there are none. Police Commissioner Ian Stewart had no clear answer when I asked him why a matter of possible political corruption relating to the last council elections almost two years ago, that was referred to the Police had still not been resolved. Obviously the fate of hundreds of Sunshine Coast subbies robbed by a corrupt developer also wasn’t a priority. I also asked the Police Commissioner why he had not provided a report to the Committee on a Private Member’s Bill dealing with reform to the Child Protection laws. With any other Bill referred to the Committee by the Government, there are wall-to-wall police having their say. But when the Bill was from a member of the cross-benches the police did not even provide a report. Chair Ian Berry and Minister Jack Dempsey mounted a spirited campaign to prevent the Commissioner from having to answer my question and the Commissioner finally caved in and said nothing. In saying nothing, it is clear that the answer was the Commissioner was given a direction from the government not to provide a report to the Committee. This is clearly a breach of the separation of powers and highlights the bias and impropriety of this government.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 03:18:55 +0000
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