Policing

Legal and human rights groups condemn the heavy-handed, policing response to a public health emergency, rather than the much-needed…

Risk-based tactics like pre-emptive breaking up of groups, close monitoring of known offenders, and unjustified police stops all translated…

As Victoria escalates its crisis response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Victoria Police must ensure its police responses are aligned…

Australia’s first police complaints chatbot has been launched by Josef Legal, Robinson Gill and ourselves to help people…

The Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System has been urged to avoid “piecemeal reviews and more training updates”…

A solution that’s often proposed to deal with problems of racial profiling is to increase police ­force diversity. …

Anti-association laws like this criminalise entire communities and entire generations. They send the visceral and racist message that these…

Ultimately, building closer relationships between young people and police often results in the intensification of policing of those young…

And it should not be forgotten that true police accountability is located in the way operational codes are observed,…

The current Inquiry into External Oversight of Police Corruption and Misconduct in Victoria has established beyond doubt the urgent…

The Police Accountability Project has called the State Opposition Police in Schools Program (PIS)a ‘terribly flawed and outmoded’…

A new study from the United States suggests that police officers are more likely to speak to white community…

Wotton is a landmark case in Australian public interest law. Communities and individuals who believe they have been affected…

The Flemington & Kensington Community Legal Centre has released its first report on the Police Accountability and Human Rights…

Before these cameras are rolled out across the state, Victorians should consider whether police body cameras are a desirable…

The Police Accountability Project is deeply concerned by accounts given by people experienced the police raids in Melbourne this…

An appeal decision has been handed down in the Victorian Supreme Court which could set back Victoria Police efforts…

Professor Philip Alston delivered a scathing indictment of Australia’s recent legislative response to perceived security issues. Titled “Could Australia…

Two young men from Flemington, Daniel Haile Michael and Maki Issa have been shortlisted for the Australian Human Rights…