Federal Court of Australia
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IN THE FEDERAL POLICE DISCIPLINARY TRIBUNAL
No. 5 of 1989 No. 6 of 1989
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
against
IAN THOMAS DICKINSON
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
against
VALERIE MAY HOSKINS
11 August 1989 MR_B.R. MAGUIRE, Q.C., Member
. REASONS FOR DECISION
Sergeant Valerie May Hoskins appears to answer an allegation by the Commissioner that between 9 November 1987 and 7 March 1988 she contravened the provisions of paragraph 6A of the Australian Federal Police Disciplinary Regulations, in that between 9 December 1987 and 7 March 1988 she did negligently omit to make any entries that she was required to make in her official diary. The facts are that in November 1987 the Sergeant was working on what seems to be a major investigation and that her activities were being recorded in the course of the preparation of that brief. Her official diary was kept up to date until 8 November 1987 but she made no entries in that official diary
between that date and the date of her departure for an extended
overseas holiday about 20 November.
Before the Sergeant went abroad she was aware that the unit in
which she was working was about to be moved physically from
where she was working to another part of the same building on a different floor. She was conscious of the risk that that move might take place before she should have returned to Australia and to work and consequently she devoted some time to packing up the papers that she was working on and securing them against the possibility that she might come back and find that her paperwork
had been interfered with in the course of this move while she
was away.
In the course of doing that packing up exercise she lodged her official diary somewhere in the compactus with the briefs that she was working on. It was, of course, at that stage out of date by some days. When the Sergeant returned to duty on what appears to have been 21 January, she was not able to locate her official diary immediately. She did not regard it as having
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