Police Royal Commission

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Police Royal Commission

A royal commission is conducted into a public service when the community and the government begin to mistrust the way that service is being run. A royal commission was conducted into the Western Australian Police Service in an attempt to find any internal problems and then table a way of rectifying these problems. This assignment will discuss the implications of this royal commission, comparing these results to those of the earlier royal commissions done on the New South Wales and Queensland police services. Furthermore this paper will outline what led to these implications, what effect they will have on the way the police service is run in Western Australia and how these results will change the structure and function of the Western Australian police service.

A royal commission into a police service is mainly conducted as a means of determining if there has been any corrupt or criminal conduct by any officer over the time period being investigated. Previous royal commissions conducted in other states revealed a consistent pattern of corrupt and criminal officers, particularly detectives. Human nature being what it is there is no reason to presume that the position in Western Australia over