Posts tagged with ‘Victoria’

IBAC Commissioner, The Honourable Robert Redlich AM, QC, has made the strongest calls yet for adequate government resourcing of…

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

The Police Accountability Project is calling for the immediate withdrawal of police from the public housing estates experiencing the…

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

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

The IBAC have released a summary of findings into its inquiry about serious injuries caused by police in a…

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…

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

Dear Premier,

In light of yet more shocking revelations in the national media about the abject failure of the…

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

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

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…

Racial profiling by Victoria Police and the harmful impacts of media distortion, stereotyping and racism have been exposed…

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

The Victorian Government must, as a matter of urgency, resource a body separate from police to independently investigate all…

In refusing to strike out Smith’s claim, the court has accepted that it is arguable police could owe a…