Juvenile Offender Prison Rate [Speech]
This speech was delivered on 12/09/2013 in the NSW Upper House. You can read the original contribution here. Mr DAVID SHOEBRIDGE [3.40 p.m.]: In the recent budget estimates hearing I asked both the...
View ArticlePolice Critical Incident Investigations [Question Time]
This speech was delivered on 17/09/2013 in the NSW Upper House. You can read the full debate online here. Mr DAVID SHOEBRIDGE: My question without notice is directed to the Minister for Police and...
View ArticleFirearms and Criminal Groups Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 [Legislation...
This speech was delivered on 15/10/2013 in the NSW Upper House. You can read the full debate online here. Mr DAVID SHOEBRIDGE [3.21 p.m.]: The Greens support substantial elements of the Firearms and...
View ArticleState Emergency Service Finances [Question Time]
This speech was delivered on 15/10/2013 in the NSW Upper House. You can read the original contribution online here. Mr DAVID SHOEBRIDGE: My question without notice is directed to the Minister for...
View ArticleFirearms and Criminal Groups Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 [Legislation...
This speech was delivered on 15/10/2013 in the NSW Upper House. You can read the full debate online here. Mr DAVID SHOEBRIDGE [5.59 p.m.]: I appreciate the Government’s detailed response to the...
View ArticleTime to consider stronger protection for whistleblowers
In May this year, SES Deputy Commissioner, Tara McCarthy, was given an hour to get her things into boxes and get out of the office. She had been sacked. Why the Deputy Commissioner was removed from her...
View ArticleMedia release: Police facing charges for assault of Roberto Curti must be...
With the DPP now stating there is sufficient evidence to charge four police with assault relating to the death of Roberto Laudisio Curti, the Police Commissioner must immediately act to protect public...
View ArticleInsurance company spying on stressed cops
Police suffering from post-traumatic stress claim the insurance company dealing with their cases are spying on them. LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Police officers spend their days exposed to the sorts of...
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Injured police get $133,000 while insurer pockets $100 million – policy...
Injured police have received only a tiny fraction of an annual $100 million that the O’Farrell government has wasted on a privatised death and disability insurance scheme they established in 2011. See...
View ArticleReview of police investigating their own a ‘whitewash’
A review into how police conduct investigations into their own behaviour has been described as a ”whitewash” after finding there was no need for a new independent body to examine serious incidents...
View ArticleDangerous Police Pursuits for Minor Traffic Offences: Time it ended in NSW
Data obtained by the Greens has found that an extraordinary 60% of all NSW high speed police car pursuits in 2013 were commenced as a result of traffic offences. A further 15% were due to failure to...
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Another dangerous NSW police pursuit and police must explain why it happened
Another dangerous NSW police pursuit has ended with innocent third parties in hospital and many lives put at risk and there is still no clear reason given by police about why they engaged in the...
View ArticleDeath in the line of duty: breaking the silence on police psychological injuries
This week’s Background Briefing on ABC Radio National covers the issue of post-traumatic stress and police suicides. My office has heard from many current and former police officers who have been...
View Article“Missing” letters from Metgasco finally released
Four “missing” letters from Metgasco Ltd to Government Ministers have finally been released indicating what Greens MP David Shoebridge has long been speculating, that a high level of political...
View ArticleNSW Police officers hold serious criminal convictions, GIPA documents show
The number of serving police in NSW with criminal records is rising and documents show NSW Police have not been upfront with the public about the recruitment of officers with form for serious crimes....
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Dangerous NSW police pursuits must be reduced to save lives
Today’s Deputy Coroner’s report into the avoidable death of a young man on a motorcycle during a high speed police chase must lead to a dramatic reduction in the number of dangerous high speed police...
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More police powers not the answer
New Attorney General Brad Hazzard and new Police Minister Stuart Ayres today announced a plan to further increase police powers, despite the new Police Minister and Attorney General having been in the...
View ArticleNotice of Motion: Bentley Blockade
Today in Parliament David read a Notice of Motion calling on the House to show support for the Bentley community expressing their democratic right to peacefully protest against harmful gas mining. Mr...
View ArticleFurther evidence of police intimidation as police raid the home of injured...
Further evidence of police intimidation and the deplorable treatment of injured police officers has emerged with footage of four police officers attending the house of two injured officers under the...
View ArticleLaw Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment Bill 2014 (Third...
This speech was delivered on 18/06/2014 in the NSW Upper House. You can read the full debate online here. Mr DAVID SHOEBRIDGE [11.36 a.m.]: Perhaps what is most disturbing about the contributions...
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