Sentence examples for misuse of police from inspiring English sources
The charges of misconduct in a public office relate to alleged misuse of police powers to sexually exploit boys while Richards was a serving police officer.
Two police officers — one current and the other former — appeared in the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on Thursday, each to deal with strikingly similar criminal charges related to the misuse of police authority.
Deborah Coles co-director of Inquest, which investigates controversial deaths following police contact, said confidence in the Met was declining: "Our work on contentious deaths and their investigation has shown a systemic lack of accountability, transparency and institutional responsibility for abuse and misuse of police powers.
I do not dismiss the ethical traps that remain – the misuse of police authority revealed recently in north London, where officers seized property including plasma TVs and smart cars for their own use – is merely one example of how easy it is for corruption to leak into the ranks.
Jack Straw, the former home secretary who in 1997 ordered the inquiry that led to the 1999 Macpherson report, said: "I'm profoundly shocked by this and by what amounts to a misuse of police time and money and entirely the wrong priorities".
"In the absence of legitimate justification for the research there is an indication of misuse of police information systems and unlawful processing of the witness's (sensitive) personal data by all involved.
Add on to the misuse of Ripa the abuse of police bail and you have a picture here of a force that believes itself accountable to nobody except itself.
Many of the commission's findings on policing, such as misuse of force by police, could be applied in other cities across the country.
In her decision, Judge Batts wrote, "None of the white officers engaged in a violent altercation with local uniformed police in a public place; were alleged to have directed obscene, sexist or foul language to other local uniformed police; threatened the misuse of power against local police; nor engaged in violent, tumultuous or combative behavior in a police station house.
More importantly, because it was still classed under the Medicines Act rather than Misuse of Drugs, the police were equally clueless.
