SA Police announces it will publish details publicly of disciplinary proceedings against officers, following calls for mandatory proactive disclosure.
South Australian police who do the wrong thing will now have their misconduct made public for the first time in a change to disciplinary measures.Mr Stevens agreed to reveal officers' ranks, but not their ages or genderswhich revealed mid-level officers breached SAPOL's code of conduct 32 times in a three-year period, but the details about the misconduct remained wrapped in secrecy.
The disciplinary outcomes against officers will now be published on a quarterly basis on the South Australia Police website, in the same way they are published in the South Australia Police Gazette."Any police officer who is subject to disciplinary proceedings has a legal right to confidentiality and that will not be compromised by expanding publication in this manner," a police spokesperson said.
It also reported a senior constable was reprimanded and fined $600 for contacting another employee and verbally abusing them. "Our discipline process provides that mechanism to deal with those issues, and we're now just giving some insight to people through our internet site on the outcomes of those matters."The PCD act provides wide-reaching protection of the identity of officers accused of misconduct, and makes it unlawful to publish any information that could reveal their identity.
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