When duty calls, who is responding?
- Report length
- 16 pages
Summary
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South Australia’s Independent Commission Against Corruption reported on police officers declining to provide sworn statements for investigations into colleagues.
The report concerned officers who could be witnesses, while expressly preserving suspects’ rights to silence and protection against self-incrimination.
The Commissioner concluded that refusals obstructed investigations and risked undermining police integrity and public confidence.
The single recommendation sought power to require affidavits from public officers who were potential witnesses rather than suspects, with an offence for non-compliance.
In the body's own words
- Opinion
Having incomplete evidence in an investigation or prosecution is not in the public interest.
Findings and recommendations
Allegations are not findings. A commission's finding or opinion of corrupt conduct or misconduct is not a finding that a person is guilty of a criminal offence, and the commissions say so in their reports.
No findings or recommendations are reproduced in this record. This does not establish that the report contains none.
Published responses
No published response was found.
Coverage
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- Office for Public Integrity: publishes only its annual reports (excluded); no OPI report or statement records.
- Since October 2021 the Commission does not make findings of corrupt conduct; most records have no findings.
- Government and agency responses are recorded only where the Commission's page links them or the report reproduces them; implementation status is not published by the Commission as structured data.
- Scanned reports without a text layer are not read (no OCR); their recommendations stay not_extracted.
- Recommendations are extracted only from numbered 'Recommendation N' lists; reports that set out recommendations in prose, tables or unnumbered lists keep recommendations_status not_extracted.
- Findings are extracted only from investigation reports that state them in the Commissioner's own words (Oakden 2018, Gillman 2015); public statements are not read for findings.