The punishment handed to a South Australian police officer who threatened to tie a noose around the neck of an Aboriginal man will not be reconsidered, the state's police commissioner says.
Earlier this year the police officer involved was ordered to undergo cultural sensitivity training after the 2013 incident when the man, who was being held under the Mental Health Act, was also threatened with being set on fire and dragged through the streets.
SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens would not be drawn on the appropriateness of the officer's punishment which had been ordered by his predecessor, but said racism had no place in the force.
"I'm not in a position where I can reopen that particular case and reconsider the punishment and issue a new punishment," he told ABC Radio on Tuesday.
"Racism and racist behaviour has no place in the South Australian police and I will take a dim view of anybody who comes before me in relation to allegations of that type."
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