Cops could face prosecution for crimes including fabricating evidence, perjury

September 11, 2013

SIX serving or former NSW police officers could face prosecution for crimes including fabricating evidence, perjury and assault after an investigation into the arrest of an Aboriginal man on the state's north coast.

Corey Barker, 23, was arrested and subsequently charged with several offences after he and a group of friends clashed with police outside a hotel in Ballina in January 2011.

Several police officers subsequently gave evidence under oath that Mr Barker assaulted them, a claim proven false when CCTV footage was played in court.

In fact, as a report released yesterday by the state's Police Integrity Commission found, Mr Barker "was handcuffed with his hands behind his back . . . (he) was then dragged along the floor to the cells and placed in a cell".

"While a number of the police officers made identical or virtually identical false assertions about the alleged assault," the evidence did not suggest they conspired to pervert the course of justice, the report found.

Instead, the commission recommended the state's Director of Public Prosecutions consider laying individual charges against five serving and one former police officers for a range of alleged offences.

Four of the serving officers allegedly involved are on restricted duties, while the fifth has been suspended over a separate matter.

A spokesman for the force said "a departmental investigation will be conducted once any potential criminal proceedings are concluded" against the men.

Mr Barker, who has previously said he wanted an apology from the police, yesterday welcomed the commission's report.

The charges laid against him following his arrest were ultimately withdrawn or dismissed by a magistrate last year, who also ordered that the prosecution pay Mr Barker's costs.

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If ever there was a rotten cop who deserves to be charged with fabricating evidence and obstruction of justice its
one Ottawa Police Detective  Peter Van Der Zander.

In July 2012 Ottawa Police Det. Peter Van Der Zander kept a male victim of domestic violence in the cells for over 12 hours while failing to photograph his injuries or interviewing him before he fabricated evidence to justify NOT charging a violent mother in order to make a "custody decision".

That's typical of the Ottawa Police who have a record of arresting male victims of domestic violence.

There are obviously more victims of Ottawa Police Det. Peter Van der Zander.

If are a victim of Ottawa Police Partner Assault unit, or
Const. Wayne "Sam" Smith badge no. 880
or
Det. Peter Van der Zander email OttawaMensCentre@Gmail.com
or call (613) 797-3237