Confidentiality means nothing to police

Last week I was contacted by a police officer who was concerned about some of the allegations on this blog. He told me that he supported the work of Julie Brown and I before then attacking both of us, claiming that I was "peddling lies" and that I had no idea what went on at Carenne.

When I asked the officer who was leaking police records he denied that any leak had occurred and claimed that people were leaking their own information to try and set the police up. The officer said he had spoken to Scott Russell, the officer who harassed staff at a Bathurst restaurant for CCTV footage in October last year and who has been implicated in the supply of alcohol to minors was "most upset" at the allegations made that he was inappropriately using police information.

I raised with this officer claims that Scott Russell had used the police computer system to look at data on houses he was looking at purchasing. The officer said that such use of the system is "above board", despite the Police Integrity Commission telling me otherwise.

The officer, quite disturbingly told me that he had spoken to two people and named them. He went into details about one of the complaints the was investigating and was more interested in what I knew about who was leaking information from the school. He told me he was of the view it was disgruntled ex-employees and when I told him we had sources inside Carenne he said I was a liar. This is despite me having meeting minutes and staff bulletins sent to me every week!

The officer told me that Julie Brown didn't exist because he tried to speak to her 2 years ago and she wouldn't talk. When I asked why he would have tried to of talked to her well before her involvement in Carenne he changed the subject!

Our conversation ended with the officer telling me he would love to get me to come to Bathurst so he could sort out my problem. He told me that I was supposed to visit Bathurst and meet someone at McDonalds on Monday but didn't show up making the other person wait all day for nothing. This was never arranged and I guessed the officer was just lying.

It shows that the police will use dirty tricks to attack anyone who goes public with their concerns about Carenne and local police. The local police in Bathurst don't want to do anything other than protect themselves and would rather give details of their witnesses out willy nilly rather than talk about the problems at Carenne or look at documentary evidence. Only a full and open inquiry can investigate the problems at Carenne.