Vic: Costigan slams government/police union deal

AAP General News (Australia)
02-23-2007
Vic: Costigan slams government/police union deal

MELBOURNE, Feb 23 AAP - Leading anti-corruption investigator Frank Costigan QC has
slammed a secret pre-election deal between Victorian Premier Steve Bracks and the state's
Police Association.

The former Royal Commissioner yesterday declared the deal a "distortion" of the democratic
process that offended the principle of transparency in government.

Mr Costigan, the chairman of anti-corruption group Transparency International Australia,
said: "Governments do secret deals with the police union at their peril, and ultimately
at the peril of the …