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• Top cop loses year off contract
  20.08.2010
  By: MICHAEL MCKENNA, TONY KOCH QUEENSLAND police commissioner Bob Atkinson's controversial new three-year contract has been dumped in a move that has blocked the Crime and Misconduct Commission's stated opposition to the reappointment. Mr... read more
• Nuttall's daughter evicted in `vendetta'
  09.07.2010
  By: TONY KOCH THE daughter of former Queensland cabinet minister Gordon Nuttall and four of his grandchildren will be evicted from the home he provided for them, after the jailed politician struck a deal with prosecutors to return corrupt... read more
• Supreme Court battle is an offensive charade
  08.07.2010
  By: Tony Koch THE lawyers' picnic masquerading in the Queensland Supreme Court as a titanic battle between the Crime and Misconduct Commission and the Queensland Police Service is just another attempt to deny any blame for the disgraceful... read more
• Atkinson hangs on in hope - Palm Island
  18.06.2010
  By: Jamie Walker, Roseanne Barrett UNDER intense pressure over his leadership of the Queensland Police Service, commissioner Bob Atkinson said yesterday his announced reappointment was no certainty. The 62-year-old career cop has been held... read more
• A failure at the top to redress injustice
  18.06.2010
  Tony Koch ONE of the most difficult jobs imaginable is to be a police officer in a remote indigenous community in Australia. It takes a special kind of person to succeed. Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley was obviously not that special kind of... read more
• A culture of denial and inertia
  18.06.2010
  By: TONY KOCH Hiding the ineptness of his officers was the police commissioner's major concern THE first signs of panic and an absence of leadership in the Queensland Police Service came on November 27, 2004, the day after Palm Islanders had... read more
• Top cop slammed for Palm probes
  17.06.2010
  By: Michael McKenna, Tony Koch QUEENSLAND Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson was responsible for seriously ``flawed'' investigations into the 2004 death in custody of Palm Island man Mulrunji Doomadgee that invoked the pre-Fitzgerald culture... read more