"I'm not saying that there aren't bad deputy sheriffs and there aren't problems, but it gets very difficult to separate out a deputy who is acting in policy, who has been commended by the department for what he's done, who is told by every single supervisor and three commanders that his actions are within policy and they are the right actions to take," she said.
In a separate case, a deputy police minister is accused of taking bribes to set criminal suspects free.
"In the long run it would be better for the church and better for people of faith, and better for Anglicans, if the church and the state were over time to stand on their own two separate feet," the deputy prime minister said on his LBC radio phone-in show.
Burnham also repeated a pledge he made last month to appoint a woman to deputise as the leader of the opposition in his absence – a separate role from deputy leader of the party – which will be decided by party members and announced on 12 September at the same time as that of leader.
In a separate statement, Claudia Roth, deputy chair of the Bundestag, the German parliament and head of the Green Party, said Mr. Salman's election would be "a mockery of the victims of the human rights abuses in Bahrain..
In a separate public appearance, the deputy prime minister, Warren Truss, took aim at older Australians who squandered their superannuation on luxury items and holidays.
His remarks drew a separate warning from John Cridland, deputy director general of the Confederation of British Industry, which represents about 200,000 British businesses.
Advocates of the reform are suggesting the party first elect a leader and then hold a separate election for a deputy with a requirement that the the person selected cannot be the same gender as the leader.
In a separate development on Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Ziad Baha al-Din, who had called for a more inclusive political process, tendered his resignation.
A separate, internal investigation into the deputies' conduct is ongoing, Alameda County Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. Ray Kelly said.
