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13.09.2010 09:39, päivitetty 13.09. 12:54
The Advertiser:Suomalaisnainen surmattiin kotiinsa Australiassa
Suomalaisnainen on löydetty surmattuna kotoaan Callingtonista, Australiassa.
Ruumiin löysi hänen veljensä lauantaina iltapäivällä, kertoo australialainen The Advertiser.
Naapurin mukaan nainen oli soittanut poliisille kuultuaan ääniä takapihaltaan. Lehden mukaan nainen oli ilmoittanut jonkun iskeneen hänen takaovensa lasin rikki kivellä.
Naisen veli löysi siskonsa talosta rajusti pahoinpideltynä.
Poliisi ei saapunut
The Advertiserin mukaan suomalaisnaisen hätäpuhelua ei oltu käsitelty asianmukaisesti.
- Hätäpuhelun vastaanottaja laati tapauksesta raportin, mutta ei välittänyt puhelua keskukseen, jolloin paikalle ei lähetetty partioautoa, poliisipäällikkö Mal Hyde myönsi lehdelle.
Tekijää tai mahdollista asetta ei ole vielä löytynyt. Poliisi tutkii tapausta, joka on järkyttänyt paikallisen pitäjän asukkaita kovasti.
Callington sijaitsee Adelaide Hillsissä, Adelaiden kaupungin itäpuolella.
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IS:n linkki päivitetty, ketjun otsikko täydennetty.Commissioner Mal Hyde admits murder bungle
* KATE KYRIACOU, DOUG ROBERTSON
* From: The Advertiser
* September 14, 2010 12:19AM
THE family of murdered Callington woman Pirjo Kemppainen will never have justice because her call for help to the police assistance line was ignored.
That's the word from a leading victims' advocate.
Police Commissioner Mal Hyde has admitted the public servant who took Ms Kemppainen's call before she was murdered made a major error of judgment by failing to send a patrol car to her house after she reported a rock was thrown through her back door. The incident is the subject of an internal investigation, Mr Hyde said.
Victims' Rights Commissioner Michael O'Connell said Ms Kemppainen's family would not be able to find peace, knowing her call for help had been ignored.
"This is an extremely tragic situation," he said.
"While I welcome the Commissioner's concession that there has been a personal error, one would not want to be in that person's position. No matter what happens now, in the eyes of the family, justice cannot be done."
Police revealed the former nurse, 63, had been asleep when her glass sliding door was smashed shortly after 12.35am on Saturday.
She told the operator she was suspicious of two boys, aged about 14, who had been at her house earlier asking about a missing dog. More than 16 hours after that call, her brother found her body at what police described as a "difficult" and "complex" crime scene.
"The call related to the breaking of a window with some sort of stone and advice we received is the offenders were no longer present," Mr Hyde said.
"And the call taker - and I have to stress that this is not a 000 call, this was a 131 444 call - the call taker then made a decision to submit an incident report which is what you are required to do, but didn't pass the call on to our communications centre to dispatch any patrol.
"That is in breach of our procedural rules. It comes down to an error of judgment, in terms of assessing the call and determining what action should have been taken.
"We receive thousands and thousands of calls into these numbers and they are dealt with correctly.
"For some reason, on this occasion, it's got nothing to do with procedures, it's got nothing to do with the supervision, it was just an error of judgment on the part of the call taker and it wasn't dealt with as we would expect."
Mr Hyde said the operator should have asked a supervisor for advice if they were unsure whether a patrol needed to be sent to the Callington home - but that was not done.
"The call takers do need to make a judgment about the type of call that has been received and what action needs to be taken," he said.
"On this occasion, it would have been expected that the call would have been attended to by a patrol. We have had civilian call takers in our call centre for somewhere close to 10 years and they are doing a great job.
"This is their full-time job, they are experts at what they do. But like anything in life occasionally somebody can make an error of judgment."
Ms Kemppainen's death was yesterday declared a major crime, as police said they were looking for the two teenage boys they believe could hold the key to what happened during her last hours.
Officers who spent the last two days visiting every home in the Hills town found the boys had not knocked on any other door looking for a missing dog.
Major Crime Detective Acting Superintendent Denise Gray said it had been impossible to determine what time the boys visited her house.
"From the phone call she believed the boys were local and they were inquiring about a missing dog," she said.
"Despite extensive door knocking and appeals, these boys haven't come forward to police. So today I would appeal to these boys or their parents or anyone else in the community that may know the identity of these boys to come forward to the police and contact Bank SA Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000."
Det Supt Gray said in her phone call to police, Ms Kemppainen thought the boys could be responsible for breaking her window. "She didn't see who threw the stone or rock through the window but I believe her assumption was that it might be related to these people," she said.
Opposition police spokesman David Ridgway said the error was inexcusable.
"They have just put out a warning about heart attack saying call (emergency services) and they will respond and if it's a false alarm that's OK," he said. "But (police) didn't send out a car for this emergency. The system has failed this person."
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Mutta se onkin vain minun mielikuvani, lapsiahan on monenlaisia ja kokoisia, hyrr. Kammottavaa!
Yäk!
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