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Time to end police investigating police: joint call for a Police Ombudsman
Read moreThe Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS), the Police Accountability Project and other community legal centres...
10 October 2022011 -
Police complaints public survey now open!
Read moreGovernment review Two recent inquiries have recommended changes to Victoria’s police complaints system. The Department of Justice is now...
18 January 2022 -
Brett Guerin and institutional racism in Victoria Police
Read moreIBAC has recently handed down its report into racist, sexist and homophobic comments by the former head of Victoria...
25 November 2021 -
Impacts on Weapons Use by Victoria Police
Read moreThe 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...
26 August 2021 -
Victoria takes another cautious step toward independent investigations
Read moreWe finally have a formal government response to the joint parliamentary IBAC Committee’s Inquiry into the external oversight of…
21 May 2021 -
Lawyer X inquiry calls for sweeping change to Victoria Police, but is it enough to bring real accountability?
Read moreThere have been a series of reviews and inquiries into Victoria Police over the past two decades. They have…
1 December 2020 -
30 November 2020 -
Victorian Government must respond to IBAC’s calls for critical resourcing.
Read moreIBAC Commissioner, The Honourable Robert Redlich AM, QC, has made the strongest calls yet for adequate government resourcing of…
15 October 2020 -
How close is Victoria to having independent investigations of police misconduct?
Read moreSo, where is the push to get independent investigations in Victoria up to at the moment?
For the…
9 October 2020 -
Independent Investigations Policy Briefing
Read moreVictoria requires a fully independent system to investigate serious incidents of alleged police misconduct, human rights abuses and complaints.
We…
30 September 2020 -
IBAC findings fail to build trust and leave many questions unanswered
Read moreThe IBAC have released a summary of findings into its inquiry about serious injuries caused by police in a…
20 April 2020 -
An Open Letter to the Premier of Victoria: Investigation of police misconduct
Read moreDear Premier,
In light of yet more shocking revelations in the national media about the abject failure of the…
14 November 2019 -
Release the findings of Brett Guerin investigation: Our statement IBAC’s Operation Turon
Read moreThe Police Accountability Project calls for the release of Operation Turon findings that expose potential leadership failures within Victoria…
1 September 2019 -
Independence critical in death-in-custody investigations
Read moreRevelations in Victoria’s Coronial Court today have highlighted systemic problems with police-contact death investigations in Victoria.
The Coronial Inquest…
11 August 2019 -
Calls for real change in policing of people with mental illness
Read moreThe Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System has been urged to avoid “piecemeal reviews and more training updates”…
5 July 2019 -
Renewed calls for Independent police complaints system
Read moreIn April 2016 Tommy Lovett was set upon by plainclothes detectives from Darebin Police. He was seriously assaulted, capsicum…
20 January 2019 -
Victorian Government must ensure that the Horvath case is not repeated.
Read moreThe onus now is on the current Victorian Government to ensure that Victoria has an independent body that can…
9 December 2018 -
Royal Commission into Victoria Police scandal welcome, but lawyers and experts call for immediate police accountability reforms
Read moreLawyers and advocates from across Victoria have welcomed the Andrews Government announcement of a Royal Commission into police misconduct,…
6 December 2018 -
New body for complaints against police in Victoria is a good move, with some caveats
Read moreA parliamentary committee has recommended that all serious police misconduct be investigated by a new independent Police Misconduct and…
14 September 2018 -
The independent investigation of complaints against police
Read moreThe Victorian Government must, as a matter of urgency, resource a body separate from police to independently investigate all…
1 September 2018
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