A SECOND police complaint that raises questions about the legitimacy of the Fox Taskforce has been sent to police.
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Windermere Independent MLC Ivan Dean sent the five-page document to Tasmania Police Commissioner Darren Hine on Friday morning.
It follows the handover of a 150-page document to police and the Integrity Commission last Monday.
The initial document – which is being perused by senior officers – features a leaked government document which a group of investigators claim raises questions about the taskforce’s rise last decade.
An official investigation could follow.
The new document contains the contact information of at least one former government employee who is willing to speak to police about the taskforce.
The Fox Taskforce was officially created in 2002 to identify and rid Tasmania of a rumoured fox population.
In its 12-year existence it found three fox carcasses, body parts, scats and other fox material in Tasmania.
But scientists have disputed the finds. The taskforce was disbanded in 2014.
Last week, the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, which holds most of the state’s fox material, said it no longer considered the collection to be ‘‘evidence of a fox in Tasmania’’.
Former police inspector Mike Otley, who investigated a claim that foxes had been deliberately released in Tasmania in 2001, said on Saturday that he also doubted the legitimacy of the taskforce.
All three major Tasmanian political parties have denied knowledge of criminality in the government agency.