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'Rascal' & The Internal Audit

Ambitious Plans Announced At Press Conference

 

Kalani Jamil

 

A press conference, hosted by Chief of Police Charles Hughes and rarely-seen Chief Justice Greg Joplin was today called to announce the results of the Radley Norton investigation, covered earlier this week by Saints News, in which substantial evidence was found to support the case against Mr Norton from the LSPD, with a shocking two hundred child abuse videos discovered. In the press conference, the Los Santos Police Department also announced a substantial audit undertaken by the Chief Justice, widely considered to be a shock move as the first of its type in recent history. We have the transcript of the press conference below with Charles Hughes beginning the proceedings.

 

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Thank you all for joining us today, Before I begin, I would like to introduce our guest of honour for today's press conference, Chief Justice Greg Joplin. The Chief has joined me here today regarding a joint announcement which we will get back to later. First, I have a few announcements to make regarding the day-to-day.


To start, I regret to announce the retirement of Captain Bernhardt, the Commander of the Detective Bureau. Captain Bernhardt has served with us for over a decade. He has decided to retire and spend more time with his family. As it stands we are currently looking for his successor within our own ranks, of which more news is to follow as we take care of picking our next candidate for the position.

Two days ago, on Wednesday, Detectives assigned to the Cyber Crimes Team apprehended Radley Morton, the individual behind several Facebrowser accounts sharing misinformation, fake news and child pornography. The Detective Bureau seized a plethora of storage devices, remote streaming devices and personal computers from his domicile, for which an electronic search warrant was obtained. The electronic search warrant yielded results from the devices. After having thoroughly searched the devices, over two thousand pictures were found of underaged children in compromising conditions. Furthermore, about 200 videos were found related to the subject.


In co-operation with the District Attorney, The Los Santos Police Department will be filing charges against Radley Morton for all the contents of his personal computers, as well as the storage devices and cam recorders found on site. Furthermore, we are looking into the possibility of charging him with drug trafficking as well, based on information gained from his Facebrowser accounts.

The sole question was fielded by Irelia Podhajna, a now-independent blogger.


How was the LSPD made aware of all this?


As was stated to other agencies on Wednesday, the LSPD caught on to mister Morton when he tried to claim an LSPD applicant was selling Child Pornography. During our due diligence background investigation of said applicant. We looked into the account that posted the information. As the investigation progressed, detectives were able to tie a multitude of Facebrowser accounts to the same person. Detectives were able to tie all the relevant accounts to mister Morton. After having identified mister Morton, the further investigation yielded evidence that mister Morton was offering to sell Child Pornography to users on Facebrowser. This led to the initial search warrant on his property.

 

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In today's world, truth is important. Trust is important. Trust in your neighbours, in your family, but also in your government institutions. As I said when I started on this journey, it is my goal to bring the LSPD back into the trust of the community.


In today's world, I am proud to be an American. I am proud to have this freedom that has been given to me and that I have a local government I can trust. Others are not so lucky. Look for example at the situation in Hong Kong, where the police and the public have a massive rift between them. Of course this is a very extreme example, but it is an example of how it should not be done. I believe in transparency, and I believe in making this department the best version of itself. A few months ago someone asked me if I would be open to an internal audit of the Internal Affairs Group. I am not. Because I am taking it one step further. The reason I have Chief Justice Joplin here is to announce that under the consent decree, Chief Justice Joplin has offered to perform a full audit of the Los Santos Police Department. To elaborate on the subject, Chief Justice Joplin.

 

 

Chief Joplin began;

 

Thank you, Chief Hughes. And hello to everyone who was able to attend this conference today. I am going to keep these remarks, rather short and take questions right after, so if you have any please save them till then. The Los Santos Police Department is one of our finest in the country. It's officers, such as the ones in this very room show discipline in their interactions and in their appearance, valor in their duty, and honour of their service. And for that, always they should be given the gratitude and respect from our communities, and from our governing officials. And on my own personal note, I thank them for all the work they do and have strived to assist them in all manners of duty.


On this note,  Chief Hughes taking a keen interest in the departments' success has asked me to review the state of the department and look for even more areas of improvement for the Los Santos Police Department. This review, or audit if you prefer. Is all apart of a new consent decree between my office, and the city. With signatories from the Chief of Police and Mayor's office directly. The audit will mainly be focused around the different divisions, staffing structure, protocol and regulations, but may extend depending on what is found and or needs to be reviewed and this is all done in coordination with the Chief. We hope, that through this audit of the department. We will be a stronger police force for our community, that the community deserves and can be proud of. As well as have the department serve as a model for the nation.

 

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Questions were once again opened to the floor, with the first one being fielded from former Weazel Los Santos director, Irelia Podhajna.


Will the results of the audit be announced and or available for us press members to see? Or is that to be decided?


It is my full intention to ensure that a public version of the audit, be made available upon completion. However, some of the more detailed and intimate facts involving departmental matters may be censored, however, the report is expected to still provide a comprehensive focus that's easy tor read and digest, giving a full picture of the situation in coordination with the Mayor and Chiefs offices.

 

Saints News issued the next two questions.


Will this audit potentially reflect changes on some of the individuals leading the department?


This audit will indeed be conducting interviews with various officers, leaders, and staff in evaluating the quality of work and discipline for their positions. We're not going to leave a stone unturned, but ultimately whatever our recommendations are in regards to individuals in the department or so, it will be decided by the leadership of the department, rather then by any form of executive order if it does indeed come to that outcome.


In regards to the ability of the audit, what power over the department do you have, is it simply recommendations?


This is a consent decree, not a hostile takeover. We have no internal powers within the department nor do we seek it. We simply seek to give an honest review from an outside party and provide recommendations to the leadership if deficiencies are found.

 

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The outcome of the audit is yet to be seen, it is currently unknown outside of the above transcript in what the audit may contain or recommend to the department, although we will ensure we publish what we can on its release.

 

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