WA:Community disquiet over tasering

AAP General News (Australia)
12-09-2010
WA:Community disquiet over tasering

The head of WA's Corruption and Crime Commission has told an inquiry into the repeated
tasering of an Aboriginal man at the Perth Watch House .. the inquiry will need to examine
allegations of misconduct and the conduct of internal investigations by the WA police
and the Department of Corrective Services.

Commissioner LEN ROBERTS-SMITH says no one has been charged over the repeated tasering
of KEVIN SPRATT despite a police internal inquiry finding two officers had used undue
and excessive force.

Mr ROBERTS-SMITH says there's been widespread media exposure of Mr SPRATT'S tasering
and there's considerable community disquiet which is generating a lack of confidence in
police.

He says there's a need for these matters to be seen to be dealt with objectively ..

fairly .. and in a transparent way.

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KEYWORD: SPRATT (PERTH)

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