Posts tagged with ‘Australia’

The Police Accountability Project (PAP) condemns the use of new weaponry and the rising militarisation of Victoria Police. We express concern about the oppressive policing of demonstrations generally.  On Saturday 21st...

Leanne Weber  Risk factors, risk assessment and risk-based predictions dominate public discussion these days across a range of policy areas from the economy to...

Victoria Police are planning to bring back some sort of ‘Police in Schools’ program.  We don’t know the details…

The first research paper using data from the national COVIDPolicing.org.au monitoring project has now published.

The authors, Louise Boon-Kuo…

There have been a series of reviews and inquiries into Victoria Police over the past two decades. They have…

Human rights and legal organisations have condemned a police operation targeting Djab Wurrung protestors who are protecting sacred Djab…

Victoria requires a fully independent system to investigate serious incidents of alleged police misconduct, human rights abuses and complaints.

We…

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

The Police Accountability Project, run by the Flemington Kensington Community Legal Centre is united in its support for Aboriginal…

The stories coming through the covidpolicing website only give us snapshots of what is going on, but these sometimes…

New technologies such as facial recognition, video surveillance systems, body worn cameras, automatic number plate recognition and social media…

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

A team of young advocates against racial profiling by Victoria Police is a finalist in the 2019 Racism: It…

The Police Accountability Project calls for the release of Operation Turon findings that expose potential leadership failures within Victoria…

In April 2016 Tommy Lovett was set upon by plainclothes detectives from Darebin Police. He was seriously assaulted, capsicum…

The onus now is on the current Victorian Government to ensure that Victoria has an independent body that can…

Lawyers and advocates from across Victoria have welcomed the Andrews Government announcement of a Royal Commission into police misconduct,…

Are you 18 years or over? Have you been stopped by the police in Victoria in a vehicle…

A parliamentary committee has recommended that all serious police misconduct be investigated by a new independent Police Misconduct and…

Four years ago, human rights, legal and social justice organisations called upon the Victorian Government to respond decisively…