Are Scipione’s boys above the law or has the police state arrived? There are requirements for officers to wear their ID, but for APEC, what the heck.
The question is who ordered the IDs to be taken off as they are the officers responsible for such a b…
At first glance, the use of water cannon and stadium prisons during the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit suggests Australia has become a police state
Nothing could be further from the truth. The Howard government values human rights. The meas…
The ACT Policing report on the AFP stun gun trial is two years late, omits crucial detail, and points to probable deaths from future use of the 50,000 volt electric shock weapons, CLA says. The report shows police are using the stun guns -Taser X26s – t…
Marvellous piece on Saturday by Jack Waterford (“Keys to Haneef case locked in secret compartment”, pB2). He didn’t mention but might well have done that the police have announced they are to complain about Haneef’s lawyers conduct, in issuing the second…
The contract between the ACT Government and the AFP to deliver police services in 2007-8 has jumped to $117.3m, up $19.4m. But performance targets have been either dropped this year or tweaked so that police accountabliity is reduced significantly. CLA…
CLA is pleased that the Cameron Report into police pursuits in the ACT has recommended police put greater emphasis on saving life and property than on chasing vehicles. The report, which follows two deaths in police pursuits in the ACT in recent years, a…
I have just been watching the television footage of the disgraceful behaviour of NSW police at APEC today. Of course, it was inevitable that peaceful citizens would be treated this way.
People do not join the police force unless they are not afraid of…
Attorney-General Ruddock is criticising lawyers and civil libertarians who are championing the rule of law in Australia, and supporting an Immigration Minister who is denying the presumption of innocence and a police force leaking against all the rules o…
A Minister with a track record of not respecting democratically-enacted law has spat in the face of the judiciary by locking up, by his own bureaucratic decision, a man freed on bail earlier the same day by a magistrate. Zimbabwe? A Middle Eastern dictat…
CLA congratulates police for listening to the community and introducing training for all officers serving in the watchhouse. Introducing watchhouse training was they key recommendation in CLA’s submission to the ACT Watchhouse Review, run by police and t…
