%T Rethinking police gifts and benefits policies
%A Tim Prenzler
%A Alan Beckley
%A Simon Bronitt
%A et al.
%I ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security
%D 2012

%K Police



%U https://apo.org.au/node/30563

%X The acceptance of gifts and benefits – or ‘gratuities’ – has been described as ‘a police image problem that doesn’t seem to go away’ . This assertion was borne out recently in the ‘phone hacking scandal’ in the United Kingdom, when the Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police resigned following allegations that officers were compromised in their investigations by improper associations with newspaper executives and reporters; including acceptance of lunches, other hospitality and gifts.
%9 Briefing paper