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IN) THE FEDERAL POLICE )
) No. FPNT 3 of 1988 DISCIPLINARY TRIBUNAL )
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
against
SENIOR CONSTABLE MELVILLE GEORGE KNISPEL
DECISION
TRIBUNAL: MR B.R. MAGUIRE, Q.C.
NATE 3 14 September 1988 PLACE : Brisbane
THE TRIBUNAL FINDS:
That the Respondent, Senior Constable Melville George Knispel, a member of the Australian Federal Police, is guilty of the disciplinary offence of which he was charged, namely being
negligent in the discharge of his duties as charged in notification number 27/8788.
AND THE TRIBUNAL ORDERS THAT:
1. The remaining four charges in notifications numbered 25/8788 26/8788, 28/8788 and 29/8788 be dismissed.
2. The proceedings be remitted to the Commissioner for the imposition of a penalty.
By the Tribunal,
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REGISTRAR
The respondent, Senior Constable Melville George Knispel, came before the Tribunal on 26 June 1988, the first day of a hearing
which is now in its sixth day. He was then facing allegations, five in number, which had been referred against him by the Commissioner of Police. Of those five, only one survives and
that in an amended form.
Notification number 26/8788, notification number 28/8788 and notification number 29/8788 were withdrawn at an earlier stage of the proceedings. Notification number 27/8788 was amended without opposition so as to include certain of the allegations of negligence contained in two of the previously withdrawn notifications. No point is taken about duplicity in the
notification as it now stands.
As of the fifth day of the hearing there were then on foot two notifications against the respondent. They were 27/8788, which contains an allegation of negligence in the discharge of duty, which is particularised in three different respects, and, secondly, notification number 25/8788, which contained certain other allegations. I need not concern myself with the gravamen of those allegations because on Tuesday, 13 September 1988, which was the fifth day of hearing, the respondent having admitted his guilt of the offence against paragraph 18(1)(c) as charged (in notification 27/8788), the Commissioner withdrew the only other
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