Hasn't this Lib Party stooge been sacked yet??
Now it's been revealed he took the word of a NSW druglord posing as NSW
crime commission over a top drug squad cop with no evidence.
Of course in Keeltys mind evidence is an after thought.. everything should
be done on "gut feelings"
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...53-601,00.html
VETERAN Australian Federal Police officer Gerry Fletcher has waited a long
time for vindication.
The highly decorated fighter of organised crime - lauded by AFP Commissioner
Mick Keelty in 2004 as a credit to the police in taking down drug syndicates
over three decades - could hardly be blamed for dancing over the public
humiliation of his professional nemesis.
Mark Standen, the assistant director of the NSW Crime Commission, who was
arrested and charged this week over his alleged masterminding of a massive
drug importation plot, had made three separate complaints of corruption or
misconduct against Mr Fletcher in the past decade. All were later dismissed.
The last, made at a private meeting with Mr Keelty in 2005, accused Mr
Fletcher of tipping off a Sydney drug boss, the now deceased Michael Hurley,
to an AFP Crime Commission investigation. This prompted Mr Fletcher's
sacking.
The former narcotics strike team boss has since been reappointed to the AFP
but is still waiting for a public apology from Mr Keelty. The Australian
understands Mr Keelty and Mr Standen were members of a small group - the
so-called 1979 club - of officers who had been with the AFP since its
inception.
Colleagues have said the two men worked closely together in the Redfern
office of the AFP in Sydney in the early 1990s and went jogging together in
the mornings.
Mr Keelty refused to discuss his relationship with Mr Standen yesterday,
although a spokesman for the commissioner denied that the two had been
close.
The spokesman also refused to respond to The Australian's question as to
whether Mr Keelty would be offering Mr Fletcher a public apology.
Despite being cleared, and reinstated to the AFP this year on the orders of
the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, Mr Fletcher's reputation has
continued to suffer under the stain of MrStanden's allegations.
But no more.
Mr Fletcher, in an interview conducted through his Sydney lawyer, Terry
Boyle, told The Australian yesterday he had been shocked by the reaction
among the rank and file of the AFP to Mr Standen's arrest.
"The change of attitude towards me of some people in the AFP, and outside,
has been really surprising," he said.
"My reputation was totally damaged from what he (Mr Standen) did, what the
AFP did."
Mr Fletcher is constrained from revealing his full emotions because of the
charges against Mr Standen, but says he could never understand why the
allegations were not properly investigated.
"If one person makes a complaint that doesn't stick, who cries wolf,
wouldn't the next step be to look at testing the crying of that person?"
When the AFP was questioned by The Australian about whether the force
intended to review Mr Fletcher's case and the Hurley tip-off, a spokesman
for Mr Keelty said it would be inappropriate to comment on specific
investigations.
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