5PM WRAP: The Opposition has described Police Minister Peter Ryan as the 'last man standing' amid the fall-out from an Office Of Police Integrity investigation.

In his report, tabled in State Parliament on Thursday, Office of Police Integrity director Michael Strong says former adviser to Police Minister Peter Ryan, Tristan Weston, may face criminal charges following an overwhelming abuse of authority.

The report found Mr Weston lied to Mr Ryan, leaked information to the media and had a completely inappropriate relationship with then deputy commissioner Sir Ken Jones, as part of a behind the scenes campaign against Simon Overland who eventually resigned.

On Thursday it was Mr Weston who quit while MP Bill Tilley also resigned as parliamentary secretary to the police minister, the report detailing meetings with both Mr Weston and Sir Ken.

Opposition leader Daniel Andrews says the report is damning.

Peter Ryan maintains he new absolutely nothing about what Mr Weston was doing.

According to the report, Sir Ken also discussed a secret arrangement brokered between Police Association secretary Greg Davies and Mr Weston to have Sir Ken withdraw his resignation in return for a scaled back industrial campaign.

Greg Davies says the Association has long been in the sites of the OPI.

3AW NEWS: A former adviser to Police Minister Peter Ryan may face criminal charges for abuse of power following a report from the Police watchdog.

The Office of Police Integrity report has found ex-policeman Tristan Weston lied to Mr Ryan, leaked information to the media and had an inappropriate relationship with then deputy chief commissioner Sir Ken Jones.

The pair were highly critical of his the then chief commissioner Simon Overland.

Mr Weston told Sir Ken that Police Association secretary Greg Davies had brokered a deal whereby if the government accepted a withdrawal of Sir Ken's resignation the union would soften its approach to its enterprise bargaining negotiations.

But Mr Davies has told Neil Michell the allegation is "ridiculous".

*Scroll down for Neil Mitchell's summary of the findings*

KEN JONES STATEMENT, OCTOBER 27: The OPI has today tabled its report.

I am very disappointed with the negative construction that has been placed on me for the events in May. My contact with the Deputy Premier’s policing adviser has been seriously misconstrued.

At the time, I believed that it was government reaching out to me to see what could be done to calm a volatile situation. I was given what were represented to me by Mr Weston reassurances from the Deputy Premier.

For example:

"Peter did ask me to pass on to you that he appreciates what you are going through."

"Peter did ask me to pass on to you that he appreciates what you are going through and does not doubt your integrity. He said that there are other issues in play that he could not discuss."

I had no reason at that time not to take those efforts to reassure us at face value and no reason to suppose that I was not dealing with government itself.

Since the early part of 2011 the Ombudsman has been looking into a number of justice related matters.

I, and I believe others, have been actively assisting them. I have kept them informed of relevant events, including the approaches made to me by Mr Weston, and what was communicated to me purportedly on behalf of government.

On 6 May 2011, I was abruptly forced to leave Victoria Police in controversial circumstances. For weeks thereafter, we found ourselves isolated and in the eye of a storm. I then received approaches from two senior government people, including Mr Weston, who were keen to calm the situation and confirm their understanding of some of the justice-related issues they were dealing with.

Some weeks earlier I had been confidentially sounded out by government on the possibility that I might help them with IBACC work, possibly on secondment from Victoria Police and I formally met a minister to discuss that role.

It seemed perfectly reasonable to me then and now that they wanted to maintain contact.

Mr Weston went on to initiate further contacts with me. He made it clear that he was representing the Deputy Premier. I was asked repeatedly, and allegedly on behalf of government, to withdraw my resignation.

I said no. Mr Weston was persistent. I said that I would not consider it unless the government would, in some way, support the proposal.

On 9 May I learned that Mr Weston's proposal that I withdraw my resignation had become tangled up with other problems he was trying to resolve. They were of no relevance to me and it became clear that much of what he was saying was speculative and not credible.

I communicated my scepticism to Mr Weston and distanced myself from what was being proposed. But, despite my growing misgivings, I did cling on to the underlying tone that government were trying to find a way forward where I was concerned. I then prepared a personal letter to the Deputy Premier proposing to withdraw my resignation in anticipation.

Within a short space of time it became clear that government endorsement, if it ever existed, would not be forthcoming. I told Mr Weston I would be leaving Victoria Police as planned and asked that my personal letter to the Deputy Premier offering to withdraw my resignation be destroyed.

It is now all too apparent that, for whatever reason, the relevant people in government were not all on the same page as I had been told. At the time I believed they were.

Throughout, I had no reason to doubt the representations purportedly being given to me by government and I believed that I was dealing with a government reaching out in what appeared to be a genuine attempt to stabilise a difficult and volatile situation.

Finally, it must be said that senior public servants must feel able as a last resort to confidentially report issues of significance to government if, for whatever reason, the normal avenues are not available or not viable.

This is the first time I have made any comment about this matter and I don’t intend to say anything else.

But we would like to thank the many Victorians, friends and colleagues, who reached out to us then and now.

Ken Jones

27 October 2011

EARLIER: Neil Mitchell says that by the end of Thursday one of the key advisers to Deputy Premier Peter Ryan will either be sacked or he will resign.

The 3AW host says an Office Of Police Integrity inquiry will damn Mr Ryan's media adviser, Tristan Weston, but also raise questions about what the Police Minister knew and didn't know.

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