Corrupt police may be leaking to bikie gangs

CORRUPT police may be leaking highly sensitive intelligence to outlaw bikie gangs in Victoria and NSW.

The Age says the leaks have undermined organised-crime probes and potentially endangered the lives of informers.

It said Victoria’s Office of Police Integrity (OPI) and the Police Integrity Commission in NSW are conducting separate investigations into allegations of serious security breaches involving bikie gangs.

A small number of police officers in both states are believed to be under scrutiny, although none have yet been charged.

Among several recent alleged cases of security breaches, The Age has learnt that a bikie gang was tipped off about a major police raid and the contents of a secret police targeting list were leaked.

In NSW, bikies or their associates on two occasions have shown police the reports leaked to them, claiming to have paid several thousand dollars for them.

In a statement to The Age, OPI director Michael Strong confirmed his agency had concerns about suspected ongoing leaking from police officers to criminals.

But he declined to comment on, or confirm the existence of, specific investigations.

news.com.au 19 Jul 2011

This is a well known fact to operatives within the police force and the bikie gangs that they always have someone 'on the inside'.

Rather than saying that they are, the report suggests that they 'may be', another 'inaccuracy' posted by the tabloid.

What is worse is how the governments and the so called authorities overseeing any investigations cover up the true extent of the crimes committed.

What usually happens under these circumstances is that the corrupt police are supported by the tax payers on leave for indefinite periods, with no jail time for the criminal police involved.

Another way of showing the masses that a certain group of people are 'above the law'.