Policing

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

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

Government review Two recent inquiries have recommended changes to Victoria’s police complaints system. The Department of Justice is now...

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

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...

Leanne Weber  Risk factors, risk assessment and risk-based predictions dominate public discussion these days across a range of policy areas from the economy to...

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

The first research paper using data from the national COVIDPolicing.org.au monitoring project has now published.

The authors, Louise Boon-Kuo…

These new Stage 4 restrictions in Victoria are important to slow the spread of COVID 19 and we recommend…

Legal and human rights groups condemn the heavy-handed, policing response to a public health emergency, rather than the much-needed…

As Victoria escalates its crisis response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Victoria Police must ensure its police responses are aligned…

Australia’s first police complaints chatbot has been launched by Josef Legal, Robinson Gill and ourselves to help people…

The Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System has been urged to avoid “piecemeal reviews and more training updates”…

A solution that’s often proposed to deal with problems of racial profiling is to increase police ­force diversity. …

Anti-association laws like this criminalise entire communities and entire generations. They send the visceral and racist message that these…

Ultimately, building closer relationships between young people and police often results in the intensification of policing of those young…

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

The current Inquiry into External Oversight of Police Corruption and Misconduct in Victoria has established beyond doubt the urgent…

The Police Accountability Project has called the State Opposition Police in Schools Program (PIS)a ‘terribly flawed and outmoded’…

A new study from the United States suggests that police officers are more likely to speak to white community…