Posts tagged with ‘discrimination’

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...

We finally have a formal government response to the joint parliamentary IBAC Committee’s Inquiry into the external oversight of…

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…

There have been a series of reviews and inquiries into Victoria Police over the past two decades. They have…

Human rights and legal organisations have condemned a police operation targeting Djab Wurrung protestors who are protecting sacred Djab…

Victoria requires a fully independent system to investigate serious incidents of alleged police misconduct, human rights abuses and complaints.

We…

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…

The Police Accountability Project is calling for the immediate withdrawal of police from the public housing estates experiencing the…

Risk-based tactics like pre-emptive breaking up of groups, close monitoring of known offenders, and unjustified police stops all translated…

The Police Accountability Project, run by the Flemington Kensington Community Legal Centre is united in its support for Aboriginal…

The stories coming through the covidpolicing website only give us snapshots of what is going on, but these sometimes…

New technologies such as facial recognition, video surveillance systems, body worn cameras, automatic number plate recognition and social media…

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

The Police Accountability Project calls for the release of Operation Turon findings that expose potential leadership failures within Victoria…

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

In April 2016 Tommy Lovett was set upon by plainclothes detectives from Darebin Police. He was seriously assaulted, capsicum…

Racial profiling by Victoria Police and the harmful impacts of media distortion, stereotyping and racism have been exposed…