An officer with WA's Corruption and Crime Commission has been dismissed after having "an extensive and intimate relationship" with an informant.
He found an officer, who was responsible for overseeing a team of "handlers" who dealt with confidential sources, used her position for personal benefit by having "an extensive and intimate relationship" with one of the CCC's sources.A source would normally have both a primary and secondary handler of a different gender to them, but that was not the case with the informant, referred to as X in the report, who was handled by LC between late 2018 and early 2023.
"She conceded that she had been making a deliberate attempt to hide her actions from the Commission," Mr Zilko wrote. Mr Zilko found there was not "widespread or systemic misconduct" within the CCC, but he said the agency "must accept that failures within its systems" allowed LC's conduct to go undetected.He said there had been "an almost total absence of cross-checking of LC's records and activities with X by other Commission officers".
"This basic failure of protocol was evidently not identified or acted upon by the commission for four years," he wrote. "The parliament has conferred extraordinary powers on the commission to undertake its important work, and this parliament and the public generally have the right to expect the highest standards of behaviour from officers entrusted with these extraordinary powers," he said.It called on the Attorney General John Quigley to examine whether the parliamentary inspector needed greater resources or legal options to deal with misconduct.
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