Commission On Crime and Corruption Hearings
The Commission on Crime and Corruption (CCC) announced that it was studying the report of the cold case review and would be holding public hearings in 2007. In the meantime it had asked the police to not release the full report, either to the public or within the police and, in particular, to ensure that police involved in the original investigation had no access to it. The CCC hearings into whether police and/or prosecutors behaved unethically or illegally in the Andrew Mallard case began on 31 July 2007.
On 7 October 2008 the CCC announced its recommendations that disciplinary action be taken against two assistant police commissioners and the deputy director of public prosecution. The two police officers subsequently resigned, thereby removing any chance of disciplinary proceedings going ahead.
In May 2009 Andrew Mallard was offered a payment of $3.25 million as settlement though the Premier of the state, Colin Barnett said that were Mallard to take civil action against those he held responsible for his wrongful conviction, the government would support any servant of the state in that event.
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