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joeanonymous
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First of all everyone that answered here that, no they don't. I am positive do not work for a police service.
Our police service's proffessional standards branch can only be described as "extremely dedicated". YA would probably pull my answer if I typed what I really thought. They are very good at their jobs and if you have done something wrong, they push it to the extreme. They are also very good at dismisssing stupid, frivolous complaints that should not go anywhere.
Most of us don't worry about them too much, because we do our job like we are supposed to.
I can't say that all police services have the same kind of "internal investigations" unit as we do, but most of the Ontario police serives that I am familiar with, do. |
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Kevin
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My department sure does. It is very thorough and can take a while if there is a lot of stuff to go through. |
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*****
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Yes they do, and if they don't they will have the feds breathing down their necks. |
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Paul D
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It would all depend on who is in charge of the departments.
Internal, means they keep it in house. If the majority of the police are honest and moral, the system works.
If the majority of police are not or the ones that are in charge are not..it doesn't work.
The whitehouse and the CIA have internal investigation all the time and we can see how well they work :-/ |
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Monica D
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Yes. And, if the offense or complaint is significant enough, the FBI gets involved as an agency of oversight. |
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CGIV76
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All the time, for many reasons. |
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Beau R
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Yes. At least some of them do. The one that I worked for was a small one, but had a Lieutenant in charge of Internal Affairs. Any complaints against officers were investigated fully. If found to be true the officer was disciplined, if unfounded, the complainant was contacted, and given an explanation. |
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newsgirl07az
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yes, they do
in the town where i live they did and cleared out almost all of the officers
it's called internal affairs
it's sort of like a court martial in the military. |
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Joe M
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Some do.
Some are a joke though - the cops being investigated are buddy buddy with the 'investigators'. They all sit down, have a good laugh about it - and then figure out a way to cover up whatever happened - blame it on someone else, or give the cop a slap on the wrist to make it look like they were punished.
I'm sure there are a few departments that are under more scrutiny, and have to actually take internal investigations much more seriously. |
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Murphy
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Yes |
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Cash only
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Depends on how much you have on the people doing the investigations. Congress and the Ethics committee are perfect examples |
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OceanUnit405
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Yes, most departments have an entire unit dedicated to IA (Internal Affairs) who spend their time investigating complaints and other issues within the department. |
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Norman
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Any organization does. It happens in retail all the time.
Think about it. Just because you work at Walmart (for example), if you started taking money out of the cash drawer do you think your coworkers would ignore it just because they work there with you? |
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spiderhedron
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Sure they do. And -- surprise! -- it usually turns out that the cop being investigated did nothing wrong.
If you think this is screwed up, I'd have to agree with you. |
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no |
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reene2g
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only when it's high profile, if you're the everyday person like you and me complaining to internal affairs gets you no where. |
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Kobe
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No they really don't do that. |
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