”Who Cops It in the ACT” – New Matilda, Wednesday 29 March 2006, commentary by Tony Kevin

 

“Last Friday afternoon, in the pre-weekend dead news hours, ACT Government Police Minister John Hargreaves and ACT Deputy Chief Police Officer Steve Lancaster released a few summary findings of the completed AFP internal investigation into a hit-and-run incident that took place at 12:15am on Saturday, 30 July 2005. On that night, Clea Rose, 21, was hit by a speeding car driven through the East Row bus interchange in the centre of Canberra — a pedestrian area, at that time of night. Clea Rose died of her injuries three weeks later.  What made this tragic event the subject of an eight-month internal investigation by the AFP was the fact that the speeding car was stolen and was being chased by a vehicle driven by ACT Police (a branch of the AFP) …”

 

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