Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, police, community-and-society, wa

Crystal methamphetamine or 'ice'" 

Three police officers stood down after testing positive for ICE… the same deadly drug that’s ruining lives across Australia

Three WA police officers stood down after testing positive to illicit drugs

The drugs include methamphetamines, known as ice, and amphetamines

Around 200 police at five suburban stations were tested on Monday 

PUBLISHED: 01:40, 3 December 2015 | UPDATED: 02:28, 3 December 2015

Three police officers have been stood down after testing positive to illicit drugs including methamphetamines in random tests in stations across ice afflicted Western Australia.

Around 200 police at five suburban stations on Monday were tested for alcohol and drugs by officers from the WA Police Internal Affairs Unit.

Three constables tested positive to ice and amphetamines and have been stood down, a spokesperson confirmed to Daily Mail Australia.

The samples are yet to be analysed and confirmed by the Chemistry Centre WA.

There remains a zero tolerance for any police officer found with illicit drugs in their system, Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan said in a statement.

‘Officers make critical decisions under duress and they must not be affected by illicit substances or alcohol,’ he said.

‘This is for the safety of the community and their frontline partners.

‘Monday's day of action by Internal Affairs should send a sobering warning to any officer using illicit substances at any time.’

Regulations to allow random and target drug and alcohol testing were introduced in December 2011.

During the four years of testing, a further 11 officers have exceeded 0.02% blood alcohol levels and a further seven officers have tested positive to illicit drugs, police said.

Excluding the most recent three officers, two officers have tested positive to cannabis, one to methamphetamine, two to MDMA and one to anabolic steroids.

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Six resigned prior to the conclusion of a Loss of Confidence Process, and it was accepted that the seventh may have unwittingly ingested a steroid in an exercise supplement.

Since 2012, almost 9,500 tests have been conducted on WA officers and less than one per cent (0.07%) have tested positive to illicit drugs.

But Commissioner O’Callaghan said it was important to identify the few.

‘However small the number of officers affected, we remain committed to identifying these people and taking swift action against them for everyone's safety,’ he said.

It was recently reported that artificial, synthetic urine has been sold across West Australia 

It was recently reported that drug dealers have been selling artificial urine as a package deal with methamphetamine.

However, Safework Laboratories can identify synthetic urine.

On average, it has been identified once a month throughout Australia, but six positive tests were recorded in WA alone in October by Safework Laboratories.

In September, 320kg, worth $320 million, of ice was seized by police in the state, Nine News reported.

It was the biggest haul ever recorded in Western Australia, with the equivalent of 3.2 million individual hits of the drug.

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http://www.thejournal.ie/crystal-meth-ireland-930063-Jun2013/

New App Shows Devastating Effect Of Crystal Meth On Your Face

BY : JAMIE ROBERTS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVWIpjhbcbk

Meth has been around on the back street  from the 1950’s …
 but the use of common cold tablets to make meth came popular …

You would think they would not do stupid stuff like this. Notice the equipment he is using has been used before. He probably makes it all the time and sells it on the side. lol Just think about the tax dollars he wasted in doing this and for paying for the disposal of this hazardous waste. He has become an expert in the very thing he is trying to stop. Then he makes a video of it? I would never post videos about how to make drugs or do other illegal things. This I just had to post. Straight from the oppressive source. It doesn't get any better than this. Law enforcement with the cooperation of the stupid media are the ones the blew up this epidemic. If a cop wanted to provoke citizens and even children to make meth, I don't think he could do a better job than this. Only in Amerika

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Woman suffered horrific injuries after her BROTHER attacked her when she tried to calm him down... but he was allowed to walk free from court

               Stephen O'Callaghan punched sister Sharon after a night out drinking
 

             She was knocked out and had a broken nose and jaw injuries

              Sharon O'Callaghan's son was in next room as she was attacked

             O'Callaghan was given a suspended 12 month sentence

                    am Webb

               PUBLISHED: 12:25, 24 February 2014

           A battered mother-of-one has bravely gone public to reveal the horrific injuries she suffered after she was attacked -
 by her own brother.

          But although Sharon O’Callaghan, 31, was left scarred for life after she was knocked unconscious and suffered 
a broken nose and damaged jaw,               Stephen O’Callaghan walked free from court.

          Today Miss O'Callaghan, from Blackburn, Lancashire, said: 'I feel let down by the justice system after 
what he did to me and what he has now go
         away with.

'        'What have you got to do to get justice in this day and age if someone can do that and get away with it? 

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Horrific: Sharon O'Callaghan, who suffered severe injuries when her brother punched her

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Stephen O’Callaghan, 32, carried out the attack while drunk after a night out

'My injuries speak for themselves. Next time he does this, someone will be dead. If that’s what he will do to his own sister, then there’s no telling what he’ll do to other women.'

O’Callaghan, 32, - who has a history of domestic violence against ex-girlfriends - carried out the attack while drunk at the home he shares with his mother after an evening out in June last year.

His girlfriend had begun receiving phone calls and text messages from an ex-partner and as Stephen O’Callaghan flew into a rage, his worried sister intervened.

During a scuffle, Stephen O’Callaghan knocked out Miss O'Callaghan with a single punch to the face. She fell to the floor of the kitchen and as well as her other injuries she was left with a bulging bruised eye.

She had pictures taken of her injuries.

Last Friday unemployed father-of-one Stephen O’Callaghan admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Stephen O’Callaghan had previously served a 100 day prison sentence in 2007 for common assault

But he was given 12 months custody, suspended for 18 months after Preston Crown Court was told he had gone to a therapy group called 'Make The Change' to address his domestic violence 'rages'.

After the case Miss O'Callaghan, whose eight year old son was in another room at the time of the attack, added: 'I honestly thought my brother was going to go to jail and I’m absolutely mortified that he hasn’t. I can’t believe he’s been allowed to walk.

'He has been in prison before for knocking out his girlfriend and obviously hasn’t shown any remorse for him to do it again. 

'I’m just glad I wasn’t in court because I would have cried if I had myself seen him walk free. At the time of the attack, my friend ran out of the room to stay with my little boy and stop him from seeing what his uncle was doing.

'When she came back into the kitchen she found me unconscious on the floor.

'I still have to walk past my brother’s house twice a day to take my son to and from school. How do I tell my son that he has been able to walk away after doing this?

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Miss O'Callaghan tried to intervene when her brother flew into a rage over texts sent to his girlfriend

'My brother is a compulsive liar, he hasn’t shown any remorse - the only consolation is he can be named and shamed. He went on that course to play the system and he has come up smelling of roses.'

Prosecutor Mr David Traynor said Miss O'Callaghan was left with a 3cm triangular laceration to her forehead which will leave permanent scarring as well as bruising to her left eye and left jaw, as well as soft tissue injury.

She was taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital where she was given a CT scan and stitches for her head injury. She also needed an MRI scan as her memory of the attack never fully returned.

In a victim impact statement she said that seven months after the attack she still suffers from pain in her lower jaw and said her family has been split after her mother sided with her son.

Mr Traynor added: 'She still feels very anxious as a result and fears bumping into the defendant and something else happening. She stresses that her mother has effectively sided with her son and has left her very upset.

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Sharon was left with a 3cm triangular laceration to her forehead which will leave a permanent scar

'This is a case of greater harm, the injuries are towards the top end. This is a domestic-type incident, it is not just partners who are covered but family members too.'

O’Callaghan had previously served a 100 day prison sentence in 2007 for common assault and days later a battery charge which was dealt with by a fine.

In mitigation defence counsel Mr David Ryan said his client had shown 'genuine remorse' and added: 'He had an argument with his then girlfriend and the complainant for whatever reason decided to involve herself in the argument.'

He claimed O’Callaghan had since been beaten up by a group of men who told him: 'That’s what you get for assaulting your sister'.

Sentencing, the judge Miss Recorder Anna Vigras said: 'Your record, in relation to violence and domestic situations is not a good one.

'Even bearing in mind your guilty plea it would be an immediate custodial sentence if not for the fact you have undertaken work in the Make the Change programme and had the opportunity and taken the opportunity to reflect what happened that evening.

'For your guilty plea I give you credit and for the work you have done and in terms of your remorse I am able to impose a sentence of prison but it is suspended.'

O’Callaghan was also ordered to complete 150 hours unpaid work. He must also stay away from his sister for two years under the terms of a restraining order.

Shigufta Khan, an Independent Domestic Violence Advocate based in Blackburn, said after the case: 'I really think that women are feeling more empowered and more confident to speak out and to report crimes.

'So often victims of violence feel that they are totally alone and that nothing like this is happening to anyone else and what Sharon is doing is offering a type of peer support to other women that may be suffering.'

Det Con John Banks of Lancashire Police said: 'The injuries Sharon suffered were horrific. I am really pleased that Sharon has chosen to share her story and I hope that it encourages more victims to report these types of crimes.'

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Stephen O’Callaghan, 32, carried out the attack while drunk after a night out

Government renews Police Commissioner's contract

UPDATED MON AUG 13 2012

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-13/government-decides-on-police-commissioner/4195662

Karl O'Callaghan says the uncertainty has been distracting and he is keen to move forward.

ABC TV

The Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan has been re-appointed for a third term.

State cabinet approved a three year contract this morning.

The Premier Colin Barnett says the re-appointment was made possible after the CCC cleared the Commissioner of any misconduct relating to the use of his credit card.

Mr Barnett says Mr O'Callaghan has the full support of the Cabinet.

He says he now wants the Commissioner to focus on healing divisions with the upper echelons of WA police.

"There's clearly been some issues in the senior levels of the Police Service," he said.

"He has to now pull that organisation together and make sure the nearly 6,000 policemen and women out there are doing their job, which they are, in fighting crime in this state."

Deep divisions were revealed after the executive director of WA Police, Greg Italiano, accused the Commissioner of lacking an 'ethical compass'.

He also told the CCC that other senior officers felt the same way.

Mr O'Callaghan says the uncertainty has been distracting and he is now keen to move forward.

"We're going to sit down and look at new ways of doing things," he said.

"I think the team's fairly energised."

Mr O'Callaghan hopes to fill senior police roles, including three assistant commissioners and a deputy commissioner, within a month.

Unsubstantiated allegations

Mr Italiano, who is on leave, had put in a submission to the CCC to say he stopped signing off on Mr O'Callaghan's credit card statements in October 2010 because he "no longer wished to be put in the position of having to approve his expenditure".

But, he could not recall any specific transactions that were clearly outside police policy.

The CCC concluded the allegations could not be substantiated.

Mr O'Callaghan said the CCC report has made him wary of getting too close to senior colleagues.

Last week, he said he had previously considered Mr Italiano a friend and was shell-shocked by the statements.

He declared their working relationship untenable.

"One of the problems with getting too close to people you work with in senior positions, is it's very easy to over trust them," he said.

"Once you start to trust people and you distance yourself from, I suppose, a more inquisitorial style and you leave people to go about their business, then you can end up with something like this.

"My feeling is I've been kicked in the guts by someone who I've worked closely with for a very long time," he said.

Mr O'Callaghan had said their working relationship cannot continue.

"I don't know what his motive was but it would seem a very strange thing to do," he said.

"I mean if you make a complaint that there are concerns about somebody's corporate card expenditure, and you go before an inquiry, you would expect to have one or two examples."

Mr O'Callaghan says anti-social behaviour and alcohol abuse are among the top priorities for his third term.

Ice Age: 7:30pm Friday night on ABC TV, meet the families leading the fight against ice addiction in WA’s regional towns

Updated 23 Oct 2015, 5:14am

Meet the families leading the fight against ice addiction in WA’s regional towns

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Liam Bartlett: Why WA Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan has crossed the line

LIAM BARTLETT, PerthNow January 30, 2016

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/opinion/liam-bartlett/liam-bartlett-why-wa-police-commissioner-karl-ocallaghan-has-crossed-the-line/news-story/242653481717b584f10b3322f25f6a76

RADIO BATTLE: Karl O’Callaghan and Mark McGowan in on-air slanging match

600 CRIMES EVERY DAY: Police clueless over WA’s crime surge

CRIME INCREASE: WA Labor says Perth crime statistics are ‘devastating’

POLICE FIGURES: Extent of WA’s crime wave revealed as assaults, thefts increase

THE crime rate in this state is scandalous. Recording double-digit growth every month for the past seven months and currently 17 per cent up on last year, it’s beginning to impact on thousands of hard working West Australians.

People like “Mark” who woke about 4am on Wednesday, January 20, to discover two burglars in his Yokine home.

He chased them off the property and called police to make a statement at 4.15am.

About 5.30am he realised the iPhone that had been nicked was switched on, so using the Find My iPhone app he jumped in the car and tracked down the handset to an address in Embleton.

At 6am Mark phoned police with the details and was told they would “send the first available”. Two more calls later, the operator still couldn’t give him an ETA.

Exasperated, Mark had to go home to attend work but officers later told him the iPhone tracking app was not accurate enough to establish a warrant so they couldn’t knock on the door and demand entry anyway.

Undeterred, the next day Mark returned to the house and within five minutes of promising to doorknock the neighbours and let them know what they were living next to, convinced the occupants to hand over the stolen goods.

He’d achieved, as a simple, concerned citizen, what highly trained officers could not.

Frustrating scenarios like this that are symptomatic of a policing model ironically titled “Frontline 2020” – a system being led by a commissioner more concerned with playing politics and protecting his legacy than fixing the broken cogs in a wheel that has well and truly come off the tracks.

Karl O’Callaghan has been the state’s top cop for close to 12 years.

When you consider the leader of the free world is only allowed to serve eight, it’s more than possible Mr O’Callaghan has become stale, tired and autocratic.

On Tuesday, it also became crystal clear that he has run out of ideas on how to fix the problem.

That’s when he resorted to launching a political attack on the two most senior members of the State Opposition on Perth’s 6PR radio.

Mark McGowan fired back at Karl O’Callaghan on radio last week.

Western Australian Police Commissioner Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan said politicians didn’t bother to turn up to community meetings.

Labor has rightly been scathing of the failures of Frontline to deliver effective policing despite being in place for over a year but the commissioner decided to make it personal.

“We offered all parliamentarians a full briefing and …. ask us questions and very few turned up and Mark McGowan wasn’t among them”, he protested.

“He decided not to turn up at all and so missed the briefing completely … neither did Michelle Roberts for that particular event”, he said.

But he was wrong. It turns out Michelle Roberts was there, on behalf of Mr McGowan but that small fact didn’t bother big Karl.

He went on: “We’ve also had community events to explain to local communities like Rockingham and Mandurah and others about the changes,” he said.

“I’m happy to offer a broader briefing to politicians if they bother to turn up”.

Well, whoops again. The Opposition Leader did turn up – to one of two community briefings in Rockingham – and sent his two electorate officers to the other one.

Mr O’Callaghan has since sent a text message of apology to Ms Roberts. Mr McGowan is still waiting.

But for Western Australian Police Commissioner Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan, it wasn’t simply wrong. It was an embarrassment to hear the leader of a law and order agency make such a fundamental error of fact.

And to use briefings that happened 18 months ago reeks of a drowning sailor clinging to the nearest piece of driftwood.

Police minister Liza Harvey.

It’s almost as cringe-worthy as some of the homilies that he and his sidekick, Police Minister Liza Harvey, have delivered to explain why the crime rate is surging and the response times slowing.

First it was leaving valuables in the car at the beach, then the ice epidemic taking over the globe and then it was our fault for not locking doors and windows at home.

Maybe the most breathtaking was being informed that we now live “in a big city” and had to change our way of thinking.

It can only be a matter of time before alien abduction is wheeled out at the next press conference.

​The Minister’s lack of public criticism of the commissioner’s political power play is disappointing but not unusual.

Despite recent damning reports detailing poor police conduct and systemic failures in the elite investigating body, she still sits firmly at the commissioner’s right hand. ​

Missing in action would be too kind an explanation. Mrs Harvey is paid top dollar in the ministry to ensure police deliver the right service to taxpayers.

Her first and last priority is to the people, not to the commissioner and she would do well to remember her obligations fall in that order.

Little wonder that some party members think she is not up to the job and ​have ​started the​ backroom machinations to quash her deputy leader ambitions and push Mike Nahan forward instead.

For the commissioner, the line has been crossed.

If he wanted to be police minister, he should have run for office, but while he holds an apolitical position of authority he should respect it and leave the public debate to those who are answerable to the public.

He could do worse than to concentrate on policing and ensure response teams were properly resourced and brought back from the “breaking point” that their union estimates they’ve reached.

However, after he flagged retirement in August 2017, the Barnett Government is now faced with a seat warmer who has lost his mojo.

If it can’t find a solution, the “Marks” in the suburbs will give the opposition a chance to hold their own briefings.

Liam Bartlett is a journalist with Channel Nine and can be seen on 9 News Perth

Email: lbartlett@nine.com.au

Police figures reveal extent of WA’s crime wave as assaults, burglaries, theft increase

PHIL HICKEY, PerthNow January 6, 2016 

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/police-figures-reveal-extent-of-was-crime-wave-as-assaults-burglaries-theft-increase/news-story/c77efcb8bbdf5b97c2afbd5a2d89ea45

CRIME across WA surged again in November with assaults, burglaries and theft among the offences with the biggest rise.

Police figures released on Tuesday show there were 3785 “crimes against the person” across WA.

That’s compared to 3260 such offences in November 2014.

Among the 3785 offences committed in November 2015 were 1726 domestic assaults and 1120 non-domestic assaults.

Theft cases last November rose to more than 8400 compared to just under 7000 the previous year.

Police were so concerned by the surge in crime that in August they announced Operation Sweep, a dedicated operation targeting “unseasonal crime trends” in the metropolitan area.

The operation commenced on August 17 in response to a 19.6 per cent crime increase last July, compared to July 2014.

Police Minister Liza Harvey. Picture: File image

The operation ceased on November 1.

Senior police bosses said in November the full effects of the operation will likely be realised in the months ahead.

Police Minister Liza Harvey has previously said she believed a major driver behind the crime wave was Perth’s ice problem.

“There is no easy lever we can pull here, we just have to keep working on it and keep trying to round the offenders up and particularly people peddling drugs in the community,” she said in late November.

Perth crime statistics ‘devastating’: WA Labor

AAP January 25, 2016 

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/perth-crime-statistics-devastating-wa-labor/news-story/b8f1917fb7872874a219cfcdfa3aa941

THE WA police commissioner has defended the state’s crime-fighting model amid calls from the opposition to scrap it.

Statistics released by Labor, attributed to the WA Police website, show an 89 per cent increase in the number of robberies in Perth and a seventh consecutive month of double-digit crime increase.

Opposition Leader Mark McGowan said the “devastating” crime figures were a clear indication the state government’s policing model was not working.

“They need to get back to more traditional forms of policing, of police being on the street available, ready to respond at a moment’s notice,” he said.

WA Opposition Leader Mark McGowan. 

But Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan said the opposition had been misleading with its statistics.

“It would be fair to say that crime remains at about 17 per cent above the previous year’s figures but it’s not correct to say it’s another increase,” Mr O’Callaghan told AAP.

“Because that gives you the impression there has been a double digit increase over the previous month and that’s not true,” Mr O’Callaghan said.

Mr O’Callaghan conceded there were parts of the state’s policing model than needed work, but said scrapping the entire system wouldn’t cut crime rates any faster.

“There may be aspects of the model that require tweaking and I accept that,” he said.

“We’ve done some of that already and will continue to do that, but I think its more complex than saying `the model isn’t working - lets scrap it and move on’.”

“It’s very easy for the opposition to say `it’s the model’ but we’re also seeing an increase in crime in regional WA where there is no new policing model.”

Acting police minister Bill Marmion said the Frontline 2020 policing strategy was about “working smarter” to target crime through several strategies.

He said the state government had also committed to adding a further 550 officers.

“It is a nonsense to suggest that we abandon a model that has resulted in more officers on the front line, more police cars on the road and significant increases in charges and prosecutions,” Mr Marmion said.

WA Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan and WA Labor leader Mark McGowan in on-air slanging match

KATE CAMPBELL, PerthNow January 26, 2016 

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/wa-police-commissioner-karl-ocallaghan-and-opposition-leader-mark-mcgowan-in-onair-slanging-match/news-story/9f04431b3842c80abb2fab6e7f35d754

CRIME INCREASE: WA Labor says Perth crime statistics are ‘devastating’

POLICE FIGURES: Extent of WA’s crime wave revealed as assaults, thefts increase

POLICE Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan and Opposition Leader Mark McGowan have clashed on-air over WA’s controversial policing model with the police chief accused of being politically partisan.

In an interview on 6PR Radio on Tuesday, Mr O’Callaghan was responding to calls from Labor to scrap the much-maligned Frontline 2020 wake in the wake of the seventh consecutive month of double-digit increases in the crime rate compared to the same period the year before.

He said calls to axe the model were “overly simplistic” and accused Mr McGowan and opposition police spokeswoman Michelle Roberts of failing to attend bipartisan briefings.

“One of the things that concerns me is last year we offered all parliamentarians a full briefing and an opportunity to put ideas forward and ask us questions and very few turned up and Mark McGowan wasn’t among them, he decided not to turn up at all ... neither did Michelle Roberts,” he said.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/opinion/liam-bartlett/liam-bartlett-why-wa-police-commissioner-karl-ocallaghan-has-crossed-the-line/news-story/242653481717b584f10b3322f25f6a76

WA Police Commissioner's son Russell O'Callaghan sentenced to three years in prison for drug-fuelled bashing of ex-partner

By Joanna Menagh  2 Feb 2016, 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-02/russell-ocallaghan-son-wa-police-commissioner-sentenced-assault/7132740

Comments on commissioner on the Western Australian Police Commissioner Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan

So, it's pretty obvious that despite the decade long "Macro Task Force" the most expensive criminal investigation ever held in the southern hemisphere ... they simply allowed the CSK to slip though their fingers ... and a list of women here in Western Australia and also in Queensland, paid the price with their lives, for this absolute failure of basic policing...

And what REALLY pisses me off?

Our current Western Australian Police Commissioner .. Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan ..... who has been with this very Western Australian Police Force since 1974 - so over 40 years and the last decade he has been the Western Australian Police Commissioner ... and in all that time .... our current Western Australian Police Commissioner .... Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan hasn't done ONE single thing to fix the systemic problems with the Major Crime Squad? (Not to mention he - our current Western Australian Police Commissioner .... Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan .... also hasn't cleaning house of all the corrupt police as well) ...

And this failed Police Commissioner's reward?

A contract extension for a further 2 years from the Liberal Western Australian Government run by Premier Colin Barnet, Police Commissioner Liza Hervey and Attorney General Michael Minschin ...

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and

 R v Wark, Francis John  (2006) QCA 172

Files Numbers:

CA No 340 of 2007 DC No 651 of 2007 DC No 547 of 2007

Applicant Appellant: WARK, Francis John

Delivered on:  27 June 2008
Brisbane

Originating Motion:

District Court at Cairns

Proceeding: Sentence Application

Division: Court of Appeal

Court of Appeal

Hearing Date: 26th May, 2008

Delivered on: 2th June, 2008

Judges: McMurdo P, Mackenzie AJA and Cullinane J 
Separate reasons for judgment of each member of the Court, 
each concurring as to the orders made

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WA Major Crime is one giant cluster-phuk of monumental proportions!

Why has it taken this long to recognize the obvious?

We had just one coroner and were more than a DECADE behind schedule on coroners inquiries.

Now we have 4 coroners ...MAYBE we might catch up one day!

WA Labor Government " promised" a coroners inquest into the disappearance of Hayley Marie Dodd in July of 1999 - would be held in 2004!

A Decade later our current Police Minister Liza Harvey of the "Now WA Liberal Government" promised a coroners inquest into the disappearance of Hayley Marie Dodd in July on 1999 to be held in January of 2014.

An here we are, in June of 2015 - almost 16 years (next month) since this child Hayley Marie Dodd vanished ....

And STILL NO FRICKEN CORONERS INQUEST!

Oh!!!!! Yes!!!! 

The Western Australian Major Crime Squad are "convinced" that they have their man and will extradite John Francis Wark from Queensland to be tried for her (Hayley Marie Dodd's) homicide.

The same Western Australian Major Crime Squad described in this article who couldn't find the cheeks of their own arse with a sniffer dog to smell it out and a mirror on a big stick to view it!

They ( the Western Australian Major Crime Squad) have NO PHKKIN IDEA!

Yeah this guy John Francis Wark is involved for sure.

But did he (John Francis Wark) act alone?

Nope!!!

He (John Francis Wark) committed other crimes while he was here is Western Australia that again the Western Australian Major Crime Squad failed to discover and they allowed him (John Francis Wark) to escape to Queensland in late 1999 out of the Western Australian legal jurisdiction?

Of course WAPOL have at least partial DNA from the 2 CSK victims. What they said publicly about not having any (at least partial DNA) was probably to try and make the suspect more confident and not flee Western Australian Jurisdiction before they could catch him!

Why would anyone in 1996/1997 pay the large amount of costs back them to DNA all the taxi drivers if you have no at least partial DNA sample against which to compare it?

It just doesn't make any sense.

(quote)

Weygers was one of about 100 men initially interviewed by detectives in the rush of activity. In the years since, his significance has been mostly dismissed by the police, But that changed in dramatic circumstances last week  when detectives staged a very public search on his Claremont home, during which **** he (Waygers) was compelled to give a DNA sample *** (quote).. Why take Weyger's DNA by force with a warrant - if there's no sample against which to compare it?

Google search Mark Dixie and CSK and you'll see WAPOL went all the way to the UK to get Dixie's DNA and used it to eliminate him (Dixie) as a suspect for CSK, even though he (Dixie) was here in 1996/1997 working as a chef in Claremont (the Continenal Hotel, Bay View Terrace, Claremont) under an assumed alias at the time and his MO for his murder conviction in the UK closely matches the 2 located CSK victims?

How did they eliminate him (Dixie) if it wasn't with a DNA sample against which to compare?

Sally Anne Bowman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sally_Anne_Bowman

Sally Anne Bowman (11 September 1987 – 25 September 2005) was an English singer and model who was murdered in the early hours of 25 September 2005 in Croydon, Greater London. Bowman, aged 18 at the time of her death, had been robbed, raped and repeatedly stabbed. Mark Dixie, who had a history of robbery and sexual offences, was convicted of the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum of 34 years.

Life and Career

Bowman, born on 11 September 1987 in Carshalton, Greater London to Linda and Paul Bowman (who later divorced), attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon. She had dreams of one day appearing on the cover of Vogue and had been compared to Kate Moss. Bowman worked part-time as a hairdresser and model. In January 2005, Bowman joined Pulse Model Management, a local modelling agency. She became the face of Swatch watches,  and took part in the Swatch Alternative Fashion Week in April 2005. She described her experience there. "I was so nervous all week particularly when all the models were lined up and the designers chose who they wanted to model their clothes—luckily I was picked by loads of designers which gave me more confidence.", Bowman said, describing her experience.

Murder

At 10 p.m.  on 24 September 2005, Bowman, her half-sister, Nicole, and some friends went to Lloyds Bar in Croydon, where they stayed until 1 a.m. After leaving the bar, Sally Anne waited outside for 15 minutes before being taken to a friend's house by taxi.  She contacted her ex-boyfriend, Lewis Sproston, with whom she had recently broken up, and he agreed to pick her up and take her home after she told him Nicole had been arrested for fighting. She took a taxi back into Croydon town centre, where Sproston picked her up at around 2:20 a.m. and drove her to her home in Blenheim Crescent.  While in the car, Bowman and Sproston quarrelled, accusing each other of infidelity. Shortly after 4 a.m., Bowman left the car and Sproston drove off. Minutes later, Bowman was stabbed in the neck and stomach, and then raped as she lay dead or dying. Her handbag, cardigan, underwear and mobile phone were stolen. Police initially treated Sproston as a suspect, and was subsequently arrested but after being held for four days, DNA evidence eliminated him as a suspect.

Mark Dixie was accused and charged with the assault and murder of Bowman. At the Old Bailey on 22 February 2008, Dixie was found guilty of Bowman's murder by a unanimous verdict after three hours of jury deliberation. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum of 34 years, by which time he will be 70 years old. This is among the longest minimum terms ever imposed upon a single murderer.  It was then revealed that Dixie was already a convicted serial sex offender.

Following Dixie's murder conviction, Detective Superintendent Stuart Cundy, who had led the Bowman investigation, said: "It is my opinion that a national DNA register—with all its appropriate safeguards—could have identified Bowman's murderer within 24 hours. Instead it took nearly nine months before Mark Dixie was identified, and almost two-and-a-half years for justice to be done."

The calls for such a register were, however, turned down by ministers and other politicians who claimed that it would raise practical as well as civil liberties issues.

A documentary about the murder was broadcast on BBC One on 8 April 2008. Another TV documentary, as part of ITV's Real Crime series documented Bowman's killing, with interviews, the history of the case and reconstructions included, aired on 29 June 2009.

Mark Dixie

Mark Philip Dixie (born 24 September 1970) was born in Streatham. When he was 18 months old, his parents separated. When he was 8, his mother remarried; she had two sons by her new husband. Dixie took his stepfather's surname, McDonald.

Dixie's criminal record begins in 1986. Between then and 1990, he was found guilty of robbery, burglary, assaulting a police officer, indecent assault, indecent exposure and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He lived in Australia from January 1993 until he was deported back to the UK in April 1999 after being fined for indecent exposure. He lived in London until moving to Spain in 2002. He moved back to England in 2003.

Dixie later started work as a chef at Ye Olde Six Bells pub in Horley, Surrey. He was arrested on 10 June 2006 in nearby Crawley, West Sussex,^[16] after being involved in a fight while watching an England vs Trinidad and Tobago World Cup football match. His DNA was taken and matched with that of Bowman's killer!

Dixie denied the murder. As part of his defence he claimed he had spent the night drinking and taking drugs, and had gone out to buy more cocaine. He claimed to have come across the body of Bowman, murdered, he said, by a third party, and had sex with her after she was killed.

Dixie's DNA matches that left at a sexual assault in 2001, where it is believed he masturbated in front of a woman in a telephone booth. 

In October 2006, Dixie's DNA was sent to Western Australia to be tested against that of the DNA evidence in the Claremont serial killer case between 1996 and 1997, as it is believed he was in the area at the time of the killings, and may have committed them.  At his trial for the murder of Bowman, an unnamed Thai woman gave evidence that Dixie had stabbed and raped her in Australia in June 1998 in Subiaco, Western Australia whilst Dixie was burgling her house; Dixie has yet to be formally charged with this attack, though a DNA sample from the woman's underwear has been matched to him. 

Aftermath

On 11 September 2008, a memorial was held to mark what would have been Bowman's 21st birthday. Balloons were released in Central Croydon outside Primark in North End. 

(quote)

In October 2006, ***** Dixie's DNA was sent to Western Australia to be tested against the of the DNA evidence in the Claremont Serial Killer case between 1996 and 1997, *** as it is believed he was in the area at the time of the killings, and may have committed them (12) At his (Dixie's Trial for the murder of Bowman, an unnamed Thai woman gave evidence that Dixie had stabbed and raped her in Australia in June 1996 in Subiaco, Western Australia whilst Dixie was burgling her house Dixie has yet to be formally charged with his attack, though a DNA sample from the woman's underwear has been matched to him (quote).

Yet WAPOL would have everyone believe they have no DNA from the 2 found CSK victims!

(quote)

The report also says that  ****police found no offender's DNA on the bodies of the two women who have been found, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon.

The bodies were exposed to the elements for too long *** (quote)

So which is it WAPOL? You either have DNA or you do not have DNA?

The facts suggest, WAPOL Major Crime Squad are full of sh!t - or just 100% totally fricken incompetent, and incompetence that has cost further innocent women's lives!

You don't need the (Full) DNA sample even --- all you need is lower the suspect pool from every man in Perth in 1996 - to just one family tree!

It's called familial DNA sequencing! Developed as part of the 9/11 twin towers collapse to identify - 3,000 people from minor fragments of remains recovered.

So of course WAPOL have SOME kind of DNA sample (even it just parcial!) IMHO.

I suspect Wark of possiible CSK and Julie Cutler, Lisa Brown, Lisa Govan, Hayley Dodd, Kathleen O'Shea and his 2006 Queensland victim and so of a long while ago - prior in fact to Queensland coroner identifying him as a suspect  in Kathleen O'Shea's disappearance in 2005.

The this is 'dead/missing' women follow this poor bastard around "geographically speaking" ... apparently!

in 1988  he (John Francis Wark) lived with his parents in Cottesloe (aged- 32 I think) according to the electoral role for the time!

Also in 1988 Julie Cutler  vanished on her way home from the Parmelia Hotel and her car was found floating off the Cottesloe Groyne!

When in Badgingarra in 199 - he had a job as the school gardener. Did he get this job because he had a work reference from Iona - a prestigious women’s college in Cottesloe/Peppermint Grove/Perth.

Did he leave Perth for Badingarra in 1007/98 because things were too hot for him in Perth due to the CSK Marco Task Force

July 1999 Hayley Dodd vanishes, within a few miles of - John Francis Wark 's place!

These women really should stop following him (John Francis Wark) around - the poor sod they make him John Francis Wark) look like a criminal!!

In October 1999 he (John Francis Wark) got a $10,000 deposit on his house sale, 4 months after Hayley Dodd vanished, and headed for Queensland via Kalgoorlie, on his (Warks') motorbike with his dog.

Unlucky sod - another dead/missing woman Lisa Govan in Kalgoorlie in October 1999 last seen drinking with?

A guy on a motorbike no less!

There's another one - following the poor guy around!

He (John Francis Wark) buys a place in Queensland in December 1999/January 2000 and Katie O'Shea Vanishes 20 miles away from his house while hitch hiking in 2005!

See? they ( these dead or missing girls) just keep following following Him (John Francis Wark) around, eh?

How unlucky can one bloke (John Francis Wark) be?

At his (John Francis Wark 's) 2006 trial his 'M.O.' is exposed as using rope to tie his victims wrists!

In the 1996/1997 CSK cases in Claremont/Perth, Western Australia, WAPOL were "interested" in rope with printers ink on it found binding at least one if not two of the CSK victims wrists according to the media.

Poor unlucky sod (John Francis Wark) - fancy someone else with the same MO and using it on all these unfortunate women who follow him around?

Also after the CSK cases there was information posted at the Gary Hughes blog (And a copy pasted and forwarded to me by a Private Investigator) that says a female forensics investigator let it slip.... that at least one of CSK victims (Jane Rimmer and/or Ciara Glennon) had been bitten on the chest!

Again John Francis Wark 's the unluckiest man alive, because this 2006 victim - was also bitten on the chest!

https://jade.io/article/79701

Paragraphs 23-47 reveal all about his (John Francis Wark 's MO)

John Francis Wark 's the unluckiest bloke alive, or he is the CSK serial killer which is why WAPOL think they have enough evidence to convict him (John Francis Wark) and are extraditing him to WA to be charged formally with Hayley Dodd's abduction/death.

Even without a body the DPP believe they have enough evidence to convict him?

What could that possibly be?

Forensic Dentist Comparison on teeth x/rays and bite photos from the 2006 Queensland rape case he was convicted for, with the autoposy photos of Jane Rimmer chest bites in 1996/1997?

DNA comparison?

Remember the Macro Task Force was "wound up" after a decade, so from 1996-2006.

John Francis Wark 's DNA didn't get into Codis (Criminal) DNA Database, until 2007, a full year after WAPOL stopped looking!

But now they (WAPOL) have enough evidence to convict him (John Francis Wark) of Hayley Didd?

I don't think so - I think they are going charge him (John Francis Wark) with several crimes ...including SOME of the CSK victims...

Or

He's the unluckiest guy alive and dead women make a habit of following him around!

So, it's pretty obvious that despite the decade long "Macro Task Force" the most expensive criminal investigation ever held in the southern hemisphere ... they simply allowed the CSK to slip though their fingers ... and a list of women here in Western Australia and also in Queensland, paid the price with their lives, for this absolute failure of basic policing...

And what REALLY pisses me off?

Our current Western Australian Police Commissioner .. Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan ..... who has been with this very Western Australian Police Force since 1974 - so over 40 years and the last decade he has been the Western Australian Police Commissioner ... and in all that time .... our current Western Australian Police Commissioner .... Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan hasn't done ONE single thing to fix the systemic problems with the Major Crime Squad? (Not to mention he - our current Western Australian Police Commissioner .... Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan .... also hasn't cleaning house of all the corrupt police as well) ...

And this failed Police Commissioner's Dr Karl Jospeh O'Callaghan's reward?

A contract extension for a further 2 years from the Liberal Western Australian Government run by Premier Colin Barnet, Police Commissioner Liza Hervey and Attorney General Michael Minschin ...

 

Is out Western Australian Liberal Government "brain dead"?

its a simple fact that these failures have led to innocent women die-ing and no one is being held to account for these more horrific failings on the Western Australian Police Service!

If our  current Western Australian Police Commissioner .... Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan  has even a single SHRED of human redency, her would resign for his and his agency's Catastrophic  failures!!

It simply beggers belief!

The Police Commissioner's son Russell Joseph O'Callaghan leaves the Perth Magistrates Court. 

 

The Western Australian Police Commissioner .. Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan comforts his son
Russell Jospeh Callaghan in hospital after his son,  was involved in an explosion of a home based crystal meth factory which could have killed 
Russell Jospeh Callaghan and other people including two young children near by.

Police have charged two men over a drug lab blast that resulted in five people being hospitalised
on the weekend including Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan's son.

The blast happened on Sunday afternoon about 5.15pm on Bishopsgate Street, Carlisle.

Two children, aged three and four, were also caught up in the explosion but escaped serious harm.

Police say three of the adults and the two young children were found in a car about 20m from the explosion, yelling for help.

Russell O'Callaghan, 29, is receiving treatment at Royal Perth Hospital for injuries to his head, shoulder and arms

Karl O'Callaghan says his son Russell has made positive steps, despite new charges against him. 

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/karl-ocallaghan-speaks-about-sons-lapse-following-day-in-court-20140814-103yn9.html

AUGUST 14 2014

Karl O’Callaghan speaks about son's 'lapse' following day in court

 

Nicole Cox

WA’s Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan says he sympathises with families trying to support their drug-addicted children and believes his eldest son has made positive steps towards rehabilitation.

Speaking for the first time since his son Russell was charged over a domestic incident in which he allegedly made threats to kill and held his former partner against her will, Mr O’Callaghan said the road to recovery for drug abusers was long, arduous and often traumatic for families.

Question to be asked of WA’s Police Commissioner Dr Karl Joseph O’Callaghan.

If he “..sympathises with families trying to support their drug-addicted children …and that

the road to recovery for drug abusers was long, arduous and often traumatic for families .. and this led to his own son Russell Joseph O’Callahan allegedly made threats to kill and held his former partner against her will…”

then why does WA’s Police Commissioner Dr Karl Joseph O’Callaghan and previous Western Australian Police Commissioners allow Western Australian Police to be involved with criminal organisations and networks with the growing, manufacturing, importation, supply and distribution of illegal drugs  and many other serious criminal offences including rape. Armed robberies, abductions and murder … and are not interested in receiving and  taking any serious notice of information that will help solve serious crimes …. One of the reasons is that such information will lead to Western Australian Police being involved in association with involved with criminal organisations and networks with the growing, manufacturing, importation, supply and distribution of illegal drugs and many other serious criminal offences including rape. Armed robberies, abductions and murder .. and that on many occasions WA’s Police Commissioner Dr Karl Joseph O’Callaghan and previous Western Australian Police Commissioners have allowed to be appointed in charge of certain investigations police that are involved in the crimes that they are responsible to investigate .. and/or are placed in charge of such criminal investigations for the purpose of making sure the real people involved and/or responsible for such crimes are protected because other police and/or their families and/or criminals and criminal organisations and networks that certain police are working with or for or in association with … are involved in the organising and/or committed such crimes …

A police commissioner Karl O' Callaghan's son hurt in drug blast

• NICOLAS PERPITCH
• TheAustralian
• 12:00AM March 22, 2011

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/top-cops-son-hurt-in-drug-blast/news-story/9553ca9f4e32aacec09113353ceb68c5

WEST Australian police commissioner Karl O'Callaghan's 29-year-old son has been badly burned in an illegal drug lab explosion in Perth.

Torn between his roles as police commissioner and a dad, Mr O'Callaghan has told of his struggle to be good at both after revealing the incident. "There's always that conflict between being the commissioner of police and being the father," an emotional Mr O'Callaghan told The Australian last night after visiting his son, Russell, in Royal Perth Hospital.

The younger O'Callaghan was one of five people hurt in the powerful blast, which tore a hole through the roof of a Carlisle state housing unit. One man was in critical condition. Two toddlers escaped unhurt.

"I was quite shocked by the sight of him," Mr O'Callaghan said. "He's got serious burns to his head, neck, shoulders arms and torso. So he's pretty much bandaged right up to his head."

But he said his son was lucid and the first thing he asked was how were the two children who were nearby. "He described the explosion as a fireball that just engulfed all of them. He has been really shaken by this. He said he came within a hair's breadth of losing his life and he's exactly right.

"You can talk about clan labs all you like as a police officer. But when you get to talk to someone whose been involved in something like that and that person's very close to you, then it really drives home what the issue is."

Mr O'Callaghan reassured his estranged son, who has previously been treated for drug addiction, that he would not abandon him, saying the most important thing was that he got "well both mentally and physically".

Mr O'Callaghan said 30 illegal drug labs had been broken up in the state this year and 130 last year. Most of the backyard operations appeared to be making methamphetamines.

Coincidentally, the daughter of former police superintendent Dave Parkinson was living in the unit next door to the clandestine drug-making operation, with both of them complaining more than 40 times to the Department of Housing and police about the noise, domestic violence, alcohol abuse, insults and even alleged physical attacks on both of them.

Mr Parkinson claims the tenant had once told his daughter, Stacee, they had a .22 rifle and were going to shoot her father for standing up to them. But, despite the department's "three strikes " policy against anti-social behaviour, the tenants were never evicted. Ms Parkinson said she lived in continual fear of her neighbours around the illegal drug lab.

"It's been absolutely hell," she said. "It's been absolutely devastating, horrible. I have a look around to see if there's anyone there before I step foot into my home. That's how bad it is."

Housing Minister Troy Buswell was furious nothing had been done despite the complaints and ordered an immediate review of the three strikes policy. "The department, and by extension, the government have not done enough to protect Stacee and her fellow neighbours," he said.

Mr O'Callaghan has appointed a senior police officer to head the inquiry into the drug laboratory. He said it was unclear what role his son had played, although he did not live at the home. "He will have to face the consequences. But as a family we are suffering deeply at the moment."

Emai

The son of the WA Police Commissioner will be seeking release from custody pending the outcome of charges relating to a breach of his bail conditions, the Perth Magistrates Court has been told.

Russell O'Callaghan is alleged to have sent messages on social media to a woman he was banned from contacting as part of his bail conditions on other serious charges.

O'Callaghan appeared in court this morning via video link from Casuarina Prison.

His lawyer Sandra De Maio said she had just assumed control of the case from O'Callaghan's previous lawyer, and she needed an adjournment so she could provide prosecutors with the details of her client's bail application.

Ms De Maio said O'Callaghan would be seeking home detention bail and was hoping to take up a spot in a drug rehabilitation facility.

O'Callaghan was remanded in custody until his next court appearance in a fortnight.

Fears for O'Callaghan safety in prison

Nicole Cox, police reporter, PerthNow September 2, 2011 

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/ocallaghan-a-likely-target-in-prison/news-story/4802f6c9f77172aa111e611dc263976a

THE jailed son of WA's top cop will be held in protective custody in prison, amid grave concerns he may be targeted by other inmates.

Just an hour after Russell Joseph O'Callaghan was imprisoned for 16 months for attempting to manufacture methamphetamines, his father Police Commissioner Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan said steps would be taken by authorities to ensure his son's safety and mitigate the risk of attacks from other prisoners in jail.

Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan, the Western Australian Police Commissioners,  revealed he was torn between his role as a father and that of police commissioner in his views on today's verdict.

But he did not believe the judge had made an example of Russell, purely because he was the son of a high-profile police officer.

Above: Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan, the Police Commissioner of Western Australia comforts his son
 Russell Joseph O'Callaghan who blew himself up in is own home Crystal Meth Factory at a Western Australian Homes West House and complex.

SUPREME COURT OF QUEENSLAND

1. McMURDO P: The application for leave to appeal should be granted, the appeal allowed and the sentence imposed at first instance varied only to the extent of substituting a sentence of 12 years imprisonment for each sentence of 13 years imprisonment. I agree with the reasons of both Mackenzie AJA and Cullinane J and wish to add only some further brief observations.

2. Whilst cases of penile vaginal or penile anal penetration will often be more serious and attract heavier penalties than cases involving only digital penetration, the appropriate sentence in each case will turn on its own circumstances. Relevant exacerbating factors include whether the complainant is a child and if so, the age of the child; whether violence has been used; the physical and psychological effect of the offence on the victim; and whether the offender has previous relevant history. By way of an example of a serious case of non-penile rape, see R v Riley.^[1]

[1] (2006) 161 A Crim R 414; [2006] NTCCA 10.

[2] [1998] 2 Qd R 498; [1997] QCA 270.

[3] [1997] QCA 67.

[4] [2007] QCA 349.

[5] [2003] QCA 412.

[6]           The DSM-IV is the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and is a coding system for all mental disorders.

[7] [2007] QCA 349.

[8] [1999] QCA 457.

[9] [2004] QCA 20.

[10]           Corrective Services Act 2006 (Qld), s 182(2)(a).

[11] [2004] QCA 448

“This is rape.”

He then dragged her into the house where over the next few hours he inflicted on her the treatment previously described. During the course of the activity, he reduced her to captivity by tying her hands. For part of the time the rope was also tied to the head of the bed.

18. Unlike the offender in R v Spoehr,^[12] he did not relent and let her go. It was only due to her seizing an opportunity, after daylight had broken, to leave the house while his attention was distracted that she made her escape. Even then he unsuccessfully pursued her until it became obvious that she had made good her escape.

[12] [2003] QCA 412

[13] [1999] QCA 457.

[14] [2004] QCA 20.

[15] [2007] QCA 349.

[16] [1998] 2 Qd R 498.

[17] [1997] QCA 67.

[18] [2007] QCA 349.

[19] [2004] QCA 448.

[20] [2005] QCA 130.

[21] [2003] QCA 412.

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1. Cases citing this decision

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https://jade.io/article/79701

Stronger drugs, population growth taking toll on South West support services

By Roxanne Taylor 28 Jul 2016,

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-28/stronger-drugs-taking-toll-on-south-west-services/7656212

PHOTO: Josh Princi says his son Blayze was the wake-up call he needed to kick his meth habit. (ABC News: Roxanne Taylor)

An increase in the potency of methamphetamine is straining counselling and treatment services in WA's South-West, according to drug addiction experts.

"I've got nothing now, I'm 31 and starting again, there'd be 12-year-old kids that have got more than me," Mr Princi said.

"A lot of our domestic violence assaults, a lot of our volume crime, stealing and burglaries and damage, all relate back to methamphetamine use so yes it is one of our big issues."

The problem is being exacerbated by a rapidly growing population, and in response the South West Community Drug Service Team is being forced to expand its outreach programs to towns in the region.

Team manager of the drug service Jon Farr said Margaret River was the first to receive the additional services due to a big spike in demand.

"The demand is reflected in a 43 per cent increase in episodes of treatment dating back from 2014 to where we are currently," he said.

"And that's across the board in all substances."

Mr Farr said an increase in the strength of drugs was affecting the number of addicts seeking treatment.

"This appears to be more related to the increase in the potency of the drug, and the amount that those who are taking the drug are using, as opposed to more people actually using the drug," Mr Farr said.

Ice user kicks habit for young son

Local resident Josh Princi knows first hand how tough quitting methamphetamine can be.

He began using the drug at 18, and at the peak of his addiction was spending up to $700 a day to support his habit.

"I've relapsed probably hundreds of times but now I'm on the right track and I'm happy where I'm at," Mr Princi said.

"I've gone from being an every day user to not using at all."

Mr Princi spent time in jail for drug trafficking before his young son Blayze, who is now in his care, gave him the wake-up call he needed to leave his old life behind

"I've got nothing now, I'm 31 and starting again, there'd be 12-year-old kids that have got more than me," Mr Princi said.

Mr Princi believed a residential rehabilitation service was needed in the South West.

"You need a minimum of seven days to dry out and then a program to follow that on. There really isn't anything," he said.

The Drug Service Team has plans to roll out additional counselling services to the towns of Busselton and Collie next.

Police struggle with flow-on effects of ice use

Meanwhile police are trying to tackle the issue on the street.

Margaret River Police Sergeant Brett Cassidy said there were a lot of flow-on affects from drug use.

"A lot of our domestic violence assaults, a lot of our volume crime, stealing and burglaries and damage, all relate back to methamphetamine use so yes it is one of our big issues."

Sergeant Cassidy said drug-induced mental health incidents were taking their toll on small policing teams in regional towns.

"When we have a mental health incident, where we end up at the hospital, we can be at the hospital for some hours," he said.

Sergeant Cassidy said officers had to drive mental health patients to the special ward at Bunbury Regional Hospital more than an hour away.

"By the time you get there you're looking at around between three and five hours with each case that you deal with so it does impact a lot."

Topics: drug-use, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-education, margaret-river-6285

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-24/recivering-meth-addict-josh-princi-and-son-blayze/7656326

Recovering meth addict Josh Princi and son Blayze

Updated 28 Jul 2016, 2:48am

Josh Princi says his son Blayze was the wake-up call he needed to kick his meth habit.

ABC News: Roxanne Taylor

The benefits of being the W.A. Police Commisioners son

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/the-benefits-of-being-the-w-a-police-commisioners-son.930287/

POLICE Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan's son has been jailed for 16 months for his role in manufacturing drugs in a home laboratory. 



Russell Joseph O’Callaghan, 30, suffered serious burns when a clandestine drug laboratory exploded inside a Carlisle house on March 19 this year.

He was sentenced today in the District Court to 16 months in prison for attempting to manufacture the prohibited drug methamphetamine.

He will be eligible for parole after eight months. 

.........

Crown prosecutor Amanda Forrester said Parliament had mandated that an attempt to manufacture drugs should carry the same weight as an actual manufacture.........

“This offence is exceptionally serious.”

She said the fact that children were present when the laboratory exploded,
 the community was endangered, and public housing was effectively
destroyed meant a term of imprisonment was the most appropriate sentence. 



She added that an imprisonment sentence would serve as a general deterrent to the illegal manufacture of amphetamines.

Outside court, Mr O'Callaghan's lawyer told reporters Mr O'Callaghan was disappointed with the sentence.

Read more: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wes...d-drug-lab-blast/story-e6frg13u-1226127169963

Okay, we've got a meth cook, a lab and an explosion with children present.
What sentence would an average joe without connections expect to get for this?
A six year sentence, serve four years in jail, with two years parole? 
Did the WA Director of Public Prosecutions appeal this sentence?
Australia is a bloody marvellous country, isn't it?

Old Skool, Apr 10, 2012

Do you actually know the answers to the questions you're posing? Where did you pull expectations of a "six year sentence" for anyone else from? Bearing in mind that he was manufacturing for personal use rather than dealing...
5 seconds on Google gave me this document outlining a couple of recent sentences for the offence:

http://www.dpp.wa.gov.au/content/manufacture_prohibited_drug.pdf

Looking at the first 3 cases there, they received sentences of 2-3 years. In all cases the circumstances were much more severe (e.g. long-term manufacture, commercial profit, prior records, other offences involved). Additionally, the defendant in this case got a discount for providing Crown evidence, which the others didn't. Given that context, from just a brief summary of the facts it looks like a pretty reasonable sentence to me. Certainly I'm not seeing anything jump out at me to say that the sentence is completely out of step with what might have been handed out to anyone else.

Be honest - you saw a short sentence and the words "police commissioner's son", and put two and two together to make nine. I know you hate cops but this is pretty sloppy work.Caesar, Apr 10, 2012

Fair dinkum Caesar, what else is he going to say to a bloody journo?
He's already kicked his goal with the son only getting 8 months.
Interesting to note some of these sentences mentioned in a recent W.A Supreme Court appeal, where from what I can gather, a bloke has got 5 years for 3.5 grams of meth:

16 In Bosworth v The State of Western Australia [2007] WASCA 144; (2007) 175 A Crim R 49, Miller AJA reviewed the sentencing authorities in relation to cases involving the possession of quantities of methylamphetamine with intent to sell or supply to another. His Honour said, relevantly:

In cases involving smaller quantities of methylamphetamine (between 3 g and 65 g), sentences (where appropriate converted in accordance with the post-transitional provisions) have ranged from between 2 and 5 years. Most cases involved pleas of guilty. Examples from the last 10 years are: ​

• Vodanovic v The Queen (unreported, Court of Criminal Appeal, WA, No 151 of 1995; Library No 960056, 9 February 1996) (24.5 g of 2% purity - 2 years);
• Bellissimo v The Queen (1996) 84 A Crim R 465 (20.8 g of 6% purity - 3 years 10 months);
• Leonard v The Queen (unreported, Court of Criminal Appeal, WA, No 166 of 1998, 29 March 1999) (sale of 22.4 g of 8.5% purity amphetamines - 3 years 4 months);
• Nelis v The Queen [2000] WASCA 194 (three counts of selling and/or possession, including 54.75 g of unknown purity - 4 years 8 months);
• Marchesano v The Queen [2000] WASCA 225; (2000) 116 A Crim R 237 (41.1 g of 20% purity and 1.36 g of 20% purity - 2 years 4 months);
• Watt v The Queen [2000] WASCA 354 (6.74 g of between 18-22% purity - 2 years 8 months);
• R v Weston [2000] WASCA 389 (41.77 g of unknown purity - 1 year 8 months, suspended for 2 years);
• Mishal v The Queen [2001] WASCA 328 (20 g of 2% purity - 2 years);
• R v Hafner [2002] WASCA 211 (attempted sale or supply of 21.2 g of 36% purity - 4 years);
• Vogel v The Queen [2002] WASCA 261 (3.8 g of 11% purity and 2.86 g of 37% purity - 2 years);
• Marker v The Queen [2002] WASCA 282; (2002) 135 A Crim R 55 (two counts, one of 53.9 g of 41% purity and one of 0.1 gram of 59.3% purity respectively - 4 years 5 months);
• Hiron v The Queen [2003] WASCA 310 (over 120 g of varying purity in three counts leading to a total term of 4 years 8 months’ imprisonment);
• Hollingsworth v The Queen [2004] WASCA 73 (9.2 g of between 3-5% purity - 2 years, but concurrent with other offences and cumulative on sale of 29 g of methylamphetamine, making a total of 5 years);
• Schlenka v The Queen [2004] WASCA 142 (12.7 g of 47% purity - 1 year 8 months' imprisonment);
• Samuel v Western Australia [2004] WASCA 154 (6.25 g of 25% purity - 2 years, suspended for 2 years);
• Le v The Queen [2004] WASCA 214; (2004) 147 A Crim R 269 (two counts involving methylamphetamine of respectively 6.94 g of 81% purity and 27.9 g of 83% purity - 2 years 1 month and 4 years 2 months cumulative);
• Wong v Western Australia [2004] WASCA 286 (26 g of 6% purity - 2 years 6 months, but cumulative with other sentences);
• Colangelo v Western Australia [2004] WASCA 294 (53.32 g of varying purity - 4 years, but cumulative with other sentences);
• Olomi v Western Australia [2004] WASCA 304 (64.48 g with purity unknown - 2 years 8 months, cumulative on other sentences, but concurrent with a parole term);
• Pepper v Western Australia [2005] WASCA 177; (2005) 30 WAR 447 (3.5 g of 56-62% purity - 2 years, cumulatively with other sentences); and
• Samuels v Western Australia (No 2) [2006] WASCA 222 (23.5 g of 34% purity - 5 years) [41].

No. I'd like to see something to suggest that this sentence is out of step with the sentence anyone else in WA could expect if they committed a similar offence. If you think that the penalties for cooking meth in WA should be higher, I have no problem with that. But you started this thread on the basis that this guy has received soft treatment because his dad's the police commissioner. You've provided precisely nothing to back that up. I'm usually the first to stick the boot into the WA justice system, but I reckon you're on a hiding to nothing with this one. Caesar, Apr 10, 2012

Caesar said:

No. I'd like to see something to suggest that this sentence is out of step with the sentence anyone else in WA could expect if they committed a similar offence.

If you think that the penalties for cooking meth in WA should be higher, I have no problem with that. But you started this thread on the basis that this guy has received soft treatment because his dad's the police commissioner. You've provided precisely nothing to back that up.

I'm usually the first to stick the boot into the WA justice system, but I reckon you're on a hiding to nothing with this one.

There is no previous case in Western Australia where a cook claimed they were only cooking 0.1 grams of meth, blew up a house with kids in it, and involved a bloke named Russell whose father was the police commisioner. Please accept my apologies.

We shall have to see how the other defendents fare. My experience with the media and my healthy cynicism tells me that the hysteria factor would have gobne through the roof if this were not a police commisioners son. Todays sympathy article adds credibility to that premise. Old Skool, Apr 10, 2012

I posted a link showing a sample of recent convictions for similar offences and viewed in that context this sentence doesn't seem unreasonable. If you're going to fling such serious accusations around then the onus is on you to back them up.
 TBH it's threads like this that make it hard to take you seriously on the subject of policing. You come across as having a massive axe to grind. Caesar, Apr 10, 2012

fairdinkum said

Mind if I ask how many pills he got done with?

Something like 3000. About 1kg IIRC. stralia, Apr 10, 2012

I'd be more surprised and disappointed if the dad couldn't get his son a lighter sentence.  What's the point of having a father who's a police commissioner if he can't pull a few strings?EasternTiger, Apr 10, 2012

stralia said: 

Something like 3000. About 1kg IIRC.

Ah, okay. Fair enough. fairdinkum, Apr 10, 2012

Without examining the factors taken into account on sentence, you are in no position to judge the appropriateness of the sentence imposed. For all you know, it was well within the prosecution range.
 The details outlined just in that article - the peripheral role, undertaking to assist authorities, plea of guilty and efforts to assist his own rehabilitation - establish several significant factors in his favour; two of those an automatic and substantial discount on sentence.
You cite a case which clearly has absolutely no bearing on the facts. Prior and subsequent offending, no undertaking to assist, parity and poor prospects of rehabilitation - not to mention a different jurisdiction! - render it incomparable. 
Your contention has no substance, as is usually the case with most sentencing threads.

Donners, Apr 10, 2012

This is why the WA tough on crime rhetoric from public figures like the police commissioner, premier and WA media organisations is so absurd.

Human nature even for many of these fine upwardly mobile sociopaths means we fight to protect our own. When these kind of mistakes suddenly take on a personal note (or at least when the pretence to empathy serves our vested interest), people who have spent their lives doing the opposite now sue for clemency.
And to be honest I find nothing wrong with that. We need to find more humane ways of dealing with the drugs issue, though the explosion and children being present is actually seriously concerning.
Having said all that, the hypocrisy of some of those involved and the local medias vulgar prostitution of itself (relating to the drugs issue) are there for all to see. It would be nice if for some this was also accompanied by an acute sense of self awareness and a few minds were changed..... DivideandMultiply, Apr 11, 2012

DivideandMultiply said:

Human nature even for many of these fine upwardly mobile sociopaths means we fight to protect our own. When these kind of mistakes suddenly take on a personal note (or at least when the pretence to empathy serves our vested interest), people who have spent their lives doing the opposite now sue for clemency.

Eh? Did you read the above articles? The Commissioner doesn't sound like he's looking for clemency at all:

``I'm personally very sad about it, but I think from a police commissioner's point of view, it's not an inappropriate response by the courts.

``It is an appropriate response for what was a very dangerous and foolish act.''

Caesar, Apr 12, 2012

Fair dinkum Caesar, what else is he going to say to a bloody journo?
He's already kicked his goal with the son only getting 8 months.
Interesting to note some of these sentences mentioned in a recent W.A Supreme Court appeal, where from what I can gather, a bloke has got 5 years for 3.5 grams of meth:

16 In Bosworth v The State of Western Australia [2007] WASCA 144; (2007) 175 A Crim R 49, Miller AJA reviewed the sentencing authorities in relation to cases involving the possession of quantities of methylamphetamine with intent to sell or supply to another. His Honour said, relevantly:

In cases involving smaller quantities of methylamphetamine (between 3 g and 65 g), sentences (where appropriate converted in accordance with the post-transitional provisions) have ranged from between 2 and 5 years. Most cases involved pleas of guilty. Examples from the last 10 years are: ​

• Vodanovic v The Queen (unreported, Court of Criminal Appeal, WA, No 151 of 1995; Library No 960056, 9 February 1996) (24.5 g of 2% purity - 2 years);
• Bellissimo v The Queen (1996) 84 A Crim R 465 (20.8 g of 6% purity - 3 years 10 months);
• Leonard v The Queen (unreported, Court of Criminal Appeal, WA, No 166 of 1998, 29 March 1999) (sale of 22.4 g of 8.5% purity amphetamines - 3 years 4 months);
• Nelis v The Queen [2000] WASCA 194 (three counts of selling and/or possession, including 54.75 g of unknown purity - 4 years 8 months);
• Marchesano v The Queen [2000] WASCA 225; (2000) 116 A Crim R 237 (41.1 g of 20% purity and 1.36 g of 20% purity - 2 years 4 months);
• Watt v The Queen [2000] WASCA 354 (6.74 g of between 18-22% purity - 2 years 8 months);
• R v Weston [2000] WASCA 389 (41.77 g of unknown purity - 1 year 8 months, suspended for 2 years);
• Mishal v The Queen [2001] WASCA 328 (20 g of 2% purity - 2 years);
• R v Hafner [2002] WASCA 211 (attempted sale or supply of 21.2 g of 36% purity - 4 years);
• Vogel v The Queen [2002] WASCA 261 (3.8 g of 11% purity and 2.86 g of 37% purity - 2 years);
• Marker v The Queen [2002] WASCA 282; (2002) 135 A Crim R 55 (two counts, one of 53.9 g of 41% purity and one of 0.1 gram of 59.3% purity respectively - 4 years 5 months);
• Hiron v The Queen [2003] WASCA 310 (over 120 g of varying purity in three counts leading to a total term of 4 years 8 months’ imprisonment);
• Hollingsworth v The Queen [2004] WASCA 73 (9.2 g of between 3-5% purity - 2 years, but concurrent with other offences and cumulative on sale of 29 g of methylamphetamine, making a total of 5 years);
• Schlenka v The Queen [2004] WASCA 142 (12.7 g of 47% purity - 1 year 8 months' imprisonment);
• Samuel v Western Australia [2004] WASCA 154 (6.25 g of 25% purity - 2 years, suspended for 2 years);
• Le v The Queen [2004] WASCA 214; (2004) 147 A Crim R 269 (two counts involving methylamphetamine of respectively 6.94 g of 81% purity and 27.9 g of 83% purity - 2 years 1 month and 4 years 2 months cumulative);
• Wong v Western Australia [2004] WASCA 286 (26 g of 6% purity - 2 years 6 months, but cumulative with other sentences);
• Colangelo v Western Australia [2004] WASCA 294 (53.32 g of varying purity - 4 years, but cumulative with other sentences);
• Olomi v Western Australia [2004] WASCA 304 (64.48 g with purity unknown - 2 years 8 months, cumulative on other sentences, but concurrent with a parole term);
• Pepper v Western Australia [2005] WASCA 177; (2005) 30 WAR 447 (3.5 g of 56-62% purity - 2 years, cumulatively with other sentences); and
• Samuels v Western Australia (No 2)