… and fair enough, too!

While the publishing date for my upcoming and latest loss-leading book (at top and below) is still a fair way away, I have been uploading draft chapters for my reader. And what follows is what will be a fairly late chapter, based on a missive late yesterday from the Crime and Corruption Commission.

Here is that draft.

Chapter XX
Not corrupt enough for the CCC!

It’s now exactly a full month since a District Court judge said he’d hand down his ruling on my appeal against a Magistrate’s Court speeding conviction.

And damn! Just when any bitter, washed-up, journo needs a smoking gun or similar to keep whoever might still be reading this barely engaged, an email from the Crime and Corruption Commission lobbed last night that has left me very, very disappointed! It’s told me the CCC will be taking no further action on my complaint lodged some months ago, based on my firm belief that the remote camera operator’s certificate mentioned so much through this tome must have been sworn knowing full well that the contents had to be false.

The CCC has told me its charter restricts it to major crimes and corruption, and fair enough too. My allegations that a Queensland public servant working in the Queensland Police Force has breached public servant standards of ethical behaviour and possibly even committed a criminal offence in doing that sound pretty small fry compared with what the CCC must be focussed on.

Other reasons were that an investigation would be an unjustifiable use of resources seeing my concerns were matters in proceedings currently before the courts. Once again, fair enough. But damn! I can’t beat that up. (editor, please delete that last bit).

All fair and reasonable but with the District Court axe due to fall on me sooner than later, I’ll now have to work out who to appeal to next in my quest to find out who was the QPC remote camera office camera operator who signed this certificate and to get an answer to a very simple question I’ve raised: how on earth was it possible for her or him to declare all the signs were clearly visible and adequate.

I’m on the record in one of the courts I’ve now progressed through that they would have had to walk the relevant street with a camera and a clipboard. Don’t forget; we’re talking about a certificate that the Queensland Police Commissioner’s counsel at appeal claimed had never existed in the first place! Yes, once more … you couldn’t make this shit up!

(feed in AI’s suggestion that the CCC should be the first port of call on the existence and the integrity of the certificate.)

Don Gordon-Brown

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