Victoria Police has launched an internal probe after claims that bikies have infiltrated the force. Source: AAP
VICTORIAN police are being corrupted by outlaw motorcycle gangs because of criminality, naivety or stupidity by officers, the state's top officer says.
Chief Commissioner Ken Lay says there is intelligence that is of concern regarding the relationship between police officers and bikies.
"There are a number of current investigations ongoing. There is also intelligence that is causing both myself and my senior executive team considerable concern about some of the emerging issues," he told reporters in Melbourne.
"Often these issues are around criminality, often they're around naivety and often they are around stupidity.
"But in each case there is evidence of outlaw motorcycle gangs trying to reach inside Victoria Police and affecting the way we do our business."
Mr Lay said less than 10 police were currently being investigated for links to bikies.
But he conceded outlaw motorcycle gangs were good at what they did and understood what information they needed to get and how to get it.
Announcing a new taskforce had been set up within the professional standards command (formerly ethical standards department) to uncover corrupt police, Mr Lay said the threat might not be immediate, but he had to act to stamp it out now before it got worse.
"If we have members of Victoria Police that are compromised by these gangs it puts at risk the integrity of the organisation for a very long time," he said.
Two of Australia's leading outlaw bikies - Comanchero president and convicted drug trafficker Amad Malkoun and Bandidos sergeant-at-arms Toby Mitchell - have been cultivating police members, Fairfax Media reported on Wednesday.
Olivia Monaghan, a PhD candidate who is investigating police corruption, says it is critical that Victoria Police act quickly before corruption explodes within its ranks.
"Police officers rarely enter the force with a desire to engage in corruption, they're enticed into it and over the next few weeks and months the Victoria Police really need to look at taking a serious and active approach to changing their internal culture," she said.
"That is what history has shown us. It only takes a couple of rotten apples to ruin the orchard."
Mr Lay said he could not guarantee no more infiltration of police ranks by bikies had occurred.
"It would be silly for me to say that," he told the ABC's 730 Report.
Mr Lay was asked about the reappointment of a constable, Lauren Conte, who had allegedly inappropriately searched the force's LEAP database after forming a relationship with a bikie.
She is now back working in the police operations response unit, the ABC said.
Mr Lay said he had been given legal advice that he could not interfere with the decision on Ms Conte.
"It is true to say that I found the determination of the hearing officer quite perplexing," he said of the decision.
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