VICTORIA'S powerful police union has been pushed into the financial red after spending millions of dollars in the past 12 months defending officers accused of corruption. The Police Association's latest financial returns show it recorded an operating loss of $1,190,155 in 2006-07 after spending $4,188,457 funding the legal battles of officers facing corruption and misconduct charges. The amount spent on legal fees was more than double the $1.9 million spent in the previous 12 months and four times what the union spent in 2004-05. The financial loss, which compared with a $720,000 profit in the previous year, is expected to reignite debate within the association about the way decisions are made on which officers facing criminal charges will have their legal fees paid. Association secretary Paul Mullett said the lengthy Supreme Court trials of two detectives convicted last year of drug trafficking were the main reason for the jump in legal costs. Senior drug squad member Detective Senior Sergeant Wayne Strawhorn was convicted in October last year of trafficking 2kg of pseudoephedrine to murdered gangland figure Mark Moran. He was sentenced to seven years in jail. Detective Sergeant Stephen Allan Cox was found guilty in September last year along with two other officers of selling more than $1 million of heroin to a Melbourne drug dealer. He was also sentenced to seven years. "That's the clear reason why there was a (financial) loss," Mr Mullett said. The association may face a hefty legal bill in the current financial year after agreeing to pay the legal costs of three Armed Offenders Squad detectives fighting charges of assault and perjury following an Office of Police Integrity investigation. Under a secret deal negotiated between the union and the Victorian Labor Government prior to last year's state election, the Government agreed to reimburse the union for legal fees in cases where officers were cleared.
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