NSW: Officers on campus by 11pm tomorrow under strict curfew

AAP General News (Australia)
08-06-2006
NSW: Officers on campus by 11pm tomorrow under strict curfew

SYDNEY, Aug 6 AAP - All police trainees and officers at the NSW police college in Goulburn
will be on campus by 11pm under a strict new curfew starting tomorrow.

The crackdown follows a series of alcohol-fuelled incidents in which a number of off-duty
officers engaged in indecent behaviour in NSW city late on Thursday night and in the early
hours of Friday morning.

One officer has been charged with offensive behaviour and others are being investigated
about an altercation.

Six of the seven officers, who had been attending courses at Goulburn, have been removed
from the college following a drinking binge.

A police spokesman today said only the one arrest had been made over the incident.

"The reputation of this organisation is something I have strived for with the overwhelming
majority of my colleagues to jealously protect," NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney said
yesterday.

"I cannot afford this level of conduct or behaviour to continue."

Mr Moroney ordered the curfew, warning it was time for his officers to toe the line.

It has been 16 years since a a curfew existed at the college.

Under the new rules, officers and trainees will have to be back on the campus by 11pm
from Sunday to Thursday nights while on Friday and Saturday nights the curfew will extend
to midnight.

NSW Police Minister Carl Scully has said he supported the decision.

The latest revelations come just days after the NSW Ombudsman, Bruce Barbour, criticised
the NSW force for failing to take appropriate action over allegations that some officers
at the college were demanding sexual favours and threatening students with failure.

In response to Mr Barbour's report, Mr Moroney also announced a review of NSW Police
workplace and sexual harassment policies and procedures.

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