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Sandra’s Story: complaining about police in a small country town
Read moreThe Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre (LCCLC) has made submission to the Parliamentary inquiry into the external oversight of police corruption and misconduct in Victoria. The submission draws attention to the experiences of complainants who may be considered ‘marginalised Victorians’ by virtue of their living in regional, rural or remote parts of the state.
September 25, 2017011The minimisation of police assault
Read moreAssistant Commissioner Brett Guerin, head of Victoria Police’s internal investigations unit is quoted in the recent Fairfax article (Police complaints process overhauled after a decade of criticism, 17 September 2017) that the “vast majority of complaints … relate to service delivery issues.” One of the examples he provided is “police pushed me when they didn’t need to.”
September 22, 2017MEDIA BACKGROUNDER: Much more than an ‘anti-crime’ protest
Read moreThe ‘Make Victoria Safe Again’ protest event on Sunday 17th September 2017 provides the latest example of how law and order populism and racialised perceptions of crime are being used by the far-right in Australia as a means of mobilizing and building political strength.
September 16, 2017Introducing Achol – Peer Advocacy Team Member
Read moreI became involved in the Peer Advocacy team because I wanted to end racial profiling and be the voice for those whose voices aren’t heard…
September 12, 2017Shrouded in secrecy: Racial profiling by Victoria Police
Read moreVictoria Police must take urgent steps to monitor racial profiling by members in police stops, say experts in a report released today
“Victoria Police have policies against racial profiling, but have no measures in place to track or measure monitor when it occurs,” said report author Tamar Hopkins.
September 5, 2017Monitoring Racial Profiling: Executive Summary & Key Findings
Read moreMonitoring Racial Profiling – Introducing a scheme to prevent unlawful stops and searches by Victoria Police
A report of the Police Stop Data Working Group
Executive Summary & Key FindingsSeptember 5, 2017Effective and impartial investigation of complaints against police: 2017
Read moreAll Victorians are stakeholders in ensuring a robust, effective and human rights oriented police accountability system. In this updated Briefing Paper, we seek to give voice to the experience of many Victorians we have assisted navigate the current police oversight system.
September 1, 2017Racial Profiling and the Globilisation of Policing: A Symposium
Read moreThis exciting event features Police Accountability Project founder, and now PHD Candidate, Tamar Hopkins, along with former Police Accountability Project volunteer, PHD Candidate, Tallace Bissett presenting before a talk by visiting Professor Ben Bowling from the United Kingdom. This is a not to be missed event.
August 23, 2017Submissions to the IBAC Committee Inquiry
Read moreThis is your chance to let Parliament know what you think is needed for a fair, impartial and human rights compliant investigative model in Victoria.
July 26, 2017Nightclub police shooting highlights need for independent investigations
Read moreThe recent Melbourne nightclub shooting shows exactly why we need independent investigations of critical incidents involving police.
Yesterday’s tragic police shooting in Inflation nightclub in King Street (8 July, 2017) has sparked intense public speculation with significantly differing accounts being reported from police spokespeople and from nightclub staff and management.July 8, 2017New inquiry on external oversight of police corruption and misconduct in Victoria
Read moreThe Victorian Parliament’s IBAC Committee has announced an Inquiry into the external oversight of police corruption and misconduct in Victoria.
This very welcome initiative is the first such parliamentary review in several decades. This is your chance to make a submission.
July 6, 2017Introducing Zenab – Peer Advocacy Team Member
Read moreMy passion lies with helping those that are most underprivileged and those who experience inequities due to their race, religion, gender, and ethnic backgrounds.
July 4, 2017Why the NSW Law Enforcement Conduct Commission is no model for Victoria.
Read moreWhile the NSW LECC model is likely to significantly improve some aspects of police oversight and accountability, there are serious gaps and weaknesses in its structure which do not bode well for the urgently-required reform of police culture, and that risk undermining the overall effectiveness of the overhauled complaints system…
June 27, 2017What is the “Horvath Test?”
Read moreThe “Horvath Test” is simple. If Corinna Horvath’s 1996 assault by Victoria police occurred again today, (and many assaults of a similar nature are reported to us regularly) would a new model of police investigation ensure justice or come close to meeting the requirements of the UN Human Rights Committee’s decision on Horvath.
June 16, 2017Racial disparities in officer respect: US Study
Read moreA new study from the United States suggests that police officers are more likely to speak to white community members with a higher level of respect than black community members…
June 8, 2017I Am Not My Skin: Pasifika youth & racial profiling
Read moreA number of Pasifika youth around Melbourne have shared their experiences, their thoughts and opinions of racial profiling and recorded them on a CD titled ‘I Am Not My Skin”.
June 1, 2017New video launched: Making a police complaint in Victoria
Read moreMaking a police complaint in Victoria is a long, costly and often fruitless experience. Daniel Haile-Micheal speaks about his experiences in this new video launched by the Police Accountability Project.
May 23, 2017Introducing Manny – Peer Advocacy Team member
Read moreIn between his studies now, he is a volunteer at the Flemington and Kensington Community Legal Centre’s Peer Advocacy Team, as a Peer Advocate doing mentoring, mediation and advocacy activities. He sees some progress there, but makes mention of the way young African Australians are dealt with by the police.
May 19, 2017Discrimination, double punishment & death: the case against deportations
Read more“We are talking about people who have already served time in custody for a crime they have committed. Subjecting them, upon release, to another punishment which could have implications as grave as death for that person is extremely serious.” – Solicitor Sophie Ellis
May 8, 2017Palm Island Racial Discrimination Case – Implications for Prospective Litigants
Read moreWotton is a landmark case in Australian public interest law. Communities and individuals who believe they have been affected by racially discriminatory policing practices may now draw on Federal Court authority to pursue damages and other relief under the Racial Discrimination Act – a legal development with potentially far-reaching impacts on police accountability and race relations in Australia.
March 14, 2017Police investigating police
Read moreLegal practitioners have responded to an article by General Counsel of of the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission(IBAC), that was published in last month’s Victorian Law Institute’s Journal.
March 2, 2017A six year battle against discrimination
Read moreA Victorian Supreme Court judgement has found that Kwenda Obudho was the victim of racial discrimination by a popular Melbourne nightclub.
Mr Obudho is a DJ who had his event cancelled by the venue at the last minute on the basis of the race of the people attending.
February 10, 2017‘Justice, Social Action and Structural Change’
Read moreWe have got to realise that this kind of policing has no boundaries. There are no limitations…Individuals are meant to try and assert themselves in these spaces and that’s an impossible task….
February 2, 2017‘Apex Gang’ and the racial perception of crime
Read moreIn this way ‘Apex Gang’ has been made into a substitute word. ‘Apex Gang’ now allows journalists, commentators, and politicians, to use the term instead of “African”, Ethnic, “Black” or “Immigrant” but still provide the same message. It has meant the term has a wider currency and has reached deeper into the public discourse.
January 28, 2017Public forum: Calls for Victoria Police to track and prevent racial profiling
Read moreMore than 100 people attended ‘Without Suspicion – Measuring racial profiling in Victoria’ – a November public forum at Melbourne University. At the forum affected communities and expert academics called on Victoria Police to take urgent steps to measure the extent of racially discriminatory policing.
January 24, 2017One step back, many steps forward: Vic Police release the Equality is Not the Same 3rd year report
Read moreOn 20 December 2016, Victoria Police reported back on its Equality is Not the Same action plan, which was developed as response to recommendations made to them in 2013 after a public inquiry and by two independent reports,
December 21, 2016- November 30, 2016
Charges in Corinna Horvath case welcomed by legal advocates
Read moreThe Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) announced today that “a Victoria Police Leading Senior Constable with assault offences in relation to an incident in Hastings in March 1996.”
November 29, 2016Public Forum: Without Suspicion Measuring racial profiling in Victoria
Read moreAn expert panel discussion about the experiences and impacts of racial profiling on individuals and communities, trends in racialised policing and options for Victoria to gather and monitor ethnicity data for all police stops statewide. This will be followed by a Q&A and discussion about stop data and other strategies to prevent racial profiling by police.
November 28, 2016IBAC’s missed opportunity
Read moreIBAC’s special report into Operation Ross, released on 10 November, misses a vital opportunity to look beyond Ballarat to the Victorian police complaints system itself.
November 11, 2016