Policing levels left Hanukah event attendees ‘sitting ducks’, says NSW Liberal leader Luca Ittimani Kellie Sloane, NSW’s opposition leader, has said police didn’t provide enough resources to Sunday’s attack. Sloane said more needed to be revealed about the decisions on police resourcing to protect Jewish events, both to protect the community and the police. She […]
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Climate protesters win groundbreaking class action against Victoria police over use of pepper spray | Australian police and policing
Climate protesters have won a class action against Victoria police over the use of capsicum spray during an anti-mining demonstration in Melbourne. The first class action against Victoria police in relation to alleged excessive use of oleoresin capsicum (OC) spray was heard in the state’s supreme court earlier this year, and a decision was handed […]
Undercover police officer fabricated gun plot by animal rights activists, his managers tell inquiry | Undercover police and policing
Managers of an undercover police officer believed he had concocted a plot in which animal rights activists purportedly sought to obtain a gun to inflict a revenge attack on a political opponent, the spycops public inquiry has heard. The officer, James Thomson, claimed he had uncovered the plot while he infiltrated animal rights groups. But […]