HOSER BOOKS SET TO ROLL
ANOTHER HEAD
DECEMBER 4TH 2000
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The books that have directly forced
the early resignations of well over a hundred Victorian Police officers,
Victoria Police Corruption and Victoria
Police Corruption – 2 are set to claim another scalp.
This impending resignation (or should we say "retirement") follows
in the wake of the resignations of several high-profile Victorian cops
who were adversely named in Hoser's books including the head of the Victoria
Police Drug Squad and others.
Word around the traps is that serving commissioner Neil Comrie is sick
and tired of renewed questioning of his role in the Huey matter as documented
in full for the first time in the book Victoria Police
Corruption by Raymond Hoser.
The Huey matter involved a case whereby Comrie was alleged by fellow Police
officer Gordon Harris to have perverted the course of justice and other
serious corruption-related matters.
The incidents were raised in a Senate inquiry and occurred while Comrie
was an Assistant Commissioner in Queensland.
The inquiry found in favor of Harris and wanted to look further into the Huey matter.
Huey was an allegedly corrupt police officer who was according to Harris
being protected by Comrie.
Reportage of the Huey matter was suppressed by the Melbourne media and
hence virtually no Victorians knew about it … that was until publication
of the book Victoria Police Corruption in August 1999.
Over the last four weeks, Hoser has received calls from several serving
police claiming that Comrie had made it known that he intended quitting
the force. The reason given was that because the Victorian government had
failed to stop continuing sales of the Victoria Police Corruption
books (although most bookshops no longer carry the
titles), Comrie's role in the Huey matter was becoming widely known
and his suitability as a police commissioner was being increasingly questioned.
With thousands of the books in general circulation, plus CD's containing
the same text, and the number growing daily, Comrie's role in the Huey
matter was rapidly becoming common knowledge in Victoria – in spite of
an ongoing mainstream media ban on reporting on it.
Comrie had decided to quit while he was ahead and before the mainstream
media may decide to do the inevitable and perhaps revisit the Huey matter.
The urgency to leave the force had been increased as the mainstream media
rehashed case after case as detailed in the Victoria
Police Corruption books.
Now we could be wrong in all this, but based on the fact that several serving
police have approached us and tipped us off about Comrie's plans to quit
and the underlying reasons given, we don't think so.
However there is one thing we do know. That is when he goes, Comrie won't
credit the Hoser books as the reason, or for that matter the Huey affair.
Nor are his mates at the Herald-Sun or Age likely to do so
either.
More likely both papers will go on with all this crap about Comrie being
a great bloke who didn't tolerate corruption … ad nauseum.
But what really will be Comrie's legacy?
More drug related crime and police corruption than ever.
Years of cover-up in relation to the Windows scam, moonlighting coppers,
set-ups, forgeries, routine perjury by police and so on.
Now we're not saying all coppers are crooks, but let's not mince words.
Basically Comrie sat in charge of a bunch of crooks and let many of them
get away with murder … in some cases literally. It's called the Police
Brotherhood.
So in light of the above litany of woes, our guess is as follows:-
He'll quit around Christmas this year and his reason will be along the
lines of "I want to spend more time with my family".
Why Christmas? Most people are otherwise distracted.
Why spend more time with the family? That's an excuse no one would argue
with – hopefully the mainstream media will be too stupid to look beyond
that tried and tested excuse.
For further information about Neil Comrie and the Huey matter refer to
Chapter 39 of Victoria Police Corruption
(pages 649-664).
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