Commentary

The announcement this week that some ten thousand more frontline police and protective services officers (PSOs) in Victoria will be...

Victoria Police Engaged in Racial Profiling During the Covid-19 Pandemic   27 June 2023  MELBOURNE, VICTORIA: Inner Melbourne Community Legal...

Decline in trust of Victoria Police unsurprising after countless scandals Today, The Age released a report on the declining...

        The Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS), the Police Accountability Project and other community legal centres...

Capsicum spray class action filed against Victoria Police A class action has been filed against the Victorian State Government...

PAP has recently released two important reports around policing in the past months. PAP is proud to release these...

IBAC has recently handed down its report into racist, sexist and homophobic comments by the former head of Victoria...

As human rights-based organisations, we are calling out the COVID “anti-lock down movement” for its dangerous co-opting of human rights frameworks and language.    The “anti-lockdown movement” uses words...

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...

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

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…

And it should not be forgotten that true police accountability is located in the way operational codes are observed,…

Dear Commissioner Ashton,
We urge you to ensure that the proposed trial and roll-out of BWCs is accompanied by…

Media coverage of crime involving African young people is in hyper-drive in Victoria at the moment. If you…

More reflective, better researched and ethical public commentary around these issues will go some way towards reducing the racial…

Liberal MP Jason Wood, the Federal member for Latrobe, is trying to trick us. His release of certain statistics…

Assistant Commissioner Brett Guerin, head of Victoria Police’s internal investigations unit is quoted in the recent Fairfax article (Police…

The ‘Make Victoria Safe Again’ protest event on Sunday 17th September 2017 provides the latest example of how law…

“We are talking about people who have already served time in custody for a crime they have committed. Subjecting…