âYou have no place in this organisationâ: Top cop issues warning after spate of police misconduct, illegal activity
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Victoriaâs police chief has issued a stern warning to his members that misconduct and criminal behaviour will not be tolerated following a recent spate of âextremely troublingâ cases among its ranks.
In a memo sent to officers this week, Chief Commissioner Shane Patton slammed the behaviour of a select few employees, citing the impact the cases had on the publicâs faith in the force.
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Australian who filmed, mocked four dying officers sentenced to 10 months in jail
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MELBOURNE, Australia (NBC News) - An Australian man who recorded and taunted four dead and dying police officers was sentenced to 10 months in prison Wednesday.
Police officers and relatives are outraged at the sentence.
Forty-two-year-old Richard Pusey had been pulled over for speeding when a truck slammed into the officers.
Pusey began recording the scene describing it as beautiful, justice, and amazing.
When a bystander asked him to help, he refused and continued to record.
His lawyer said he suffered from a personality disorder.
He left the accident scene and officers discovered the video when he was arrested the next day.
The brother of a slain policeman has choked back tears while slamming Richard Pusey - the Porsche driver who filmed four officers as they lay dying after a horrific crash.
Pusey had been pulled over for speeding at 149km/h in his Porsche on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne when a truck driver crashed into the emergency lane on April 22 last year.
Leading Senior Constable Lynette Taylor, Senior Constable Kevin King, and Constables Glen Humphris and Josh Prestney died in the crash.
Instead of helping, Pusey retrieved his phone and slowly walked around and filmed the scene, zooming in on the dead and dying officers and their injuries.
Police familiesâ fury over âinappropriateâ Pusey sentence The husband of a police officer killed in the Eastern Freeway tragedy has slammed Richard Puseyâs 10-month sentence, revealing his âalmost unbearableâ pain.
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Subscriber only Grieving families of the officers killed in the Eastern Freeway tragedy have blasted the punishment handed down to speeding Porsche driver Richard Pusey. Pusey has been jailed for just 10 months after filming dying and dead police officers in the aftermath of the truck crash, while remarking that s justice . The sentence could mean Richard Pusey, 42, will walk free, having already spent 296 days behind bars on remand. He has another six days to serve under the sentence.
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