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If You Can’t Protect It, Don’t Collect It: Metadata, Privacy And The Police
Published in New Matilda, 26 March 2015. Ever since the US terrorist attacks of September 2001, crime and investigative agencies have been demanding more and more powers to reach into our private and...
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Australia Needs to Talk About Sniffer Dogs
As reported by VICE: The NSW Police drug dog presence at this month’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was substantial, as it has been in previous years. After having marched in the parade Tom, who...
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Police psychological injuries: Roadmap for reform
View the full recommendations Greens NSW Spokesperson for Police, David Shoebridge, together with injured police, their families and relevant experts has today be launched a comprehensive roadmap for...
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EVENT Sniff Off Party
Drug sniffer dogs do not work. In fact they are wrong 64-72% of the time. When they do find drugs, it is normally a small amount for personal use – only 2% of searches result in a supply conviction....
View ArticleGuns in NSW courts won’t make them safer
Arming police witnesses when they are in attendance at courts will break with centuries of tradition of removing weapons from courts, and produce no positive safety outcomes. Concerns have come to the...
View ArticleOmbudsman’s police bugging report: more delays and more questions
Media release 7 May 2015 The NSW Ombudsman has included a statement on an obscure part of his website stating that his report on ‘Operation Prospect’ is “unlikely” to be tabled by June despite having...
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MardiGrass 2015
Last weekend David Shoebridge and Senator Senator Richard Di Natale (now Australian Greens Parliamentary Leader) spoke at the Hemposium, part of the annual MardiGrass Festival. MardiGrass is held in...
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Police bugging report, endless delay raises more questions for Ombudsman
Media Release 15 May 2015 Fresh evidence has emerged into the ongoing delay of the Ombudsman’s police bugging inquiry, with his office now recruiting a fresh staff member to work on the investigation...
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Don’t like sniffer dogs? There’s a party for that
As reported by In The Mix: If you – like drug research experts, harm minimisation campaigners and the NSW Greens – believe that drug sniffer dogs are ineffective and cause more harm than...
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Police psychological injuries – getting traction
The very nature of policing, which involves the routine exposure of officers to the fact or threat of violent injury to themselves and others, means that one of the most common injuries suffered by...
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Drug Detection Dog Repeal Bill
Today Greens member for Newtown Jenny Leong will give notice of a bill to end the use of drug detection dogs without a warrant on public transport, at festivals, bars and Kings Cross. The Law...
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Sniff Off – The drug dogs don’t work
Last weekend the Greens NSW hosted a Sniff Off Party at the Red Rattler in Marrickville to coincide with the introduction of the Sniffer Dogs Repeal Bill. Paul Mac, a great supporter of the Sniff Off...
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Parliamentary Inquiry to examine Ombudsman’s police bugging report, leaks and...
A cross-party of MP’s are moving to establish a Parliamentary Inquiry into the ongoing delay of the Ombudsman’s police bugging inquiry, the impact of the Ombudsman ceasing office before the completion...
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Ombudsman’s office needs a permanent fix not a band-aid solution
Media release 9 June 2015 The announcement of a two year acting Ombudsman to replace the outgoing Ombudsman Bruce Barbour is a band-aid solution, say the Greens NSW. While the Greens welcome some...
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PIC report on “blind reporting” of child abuse badly misses the mark
The Police Integrity Commission’s report into the practice of “blind reporting” of child abuse by the Catholic Church to the NSW police has failed to call for the end of this damaging practice and...
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PIC on blind reporting: ‘We didn’t ask so we don’t know’
Read the Newcastle Herald article here – Police Integrity Commission “lack of due diligence” – by Joanne McCarthy The Police Integrity Commission has released a statement that apparently confirms they...
View ArticleFrom arrest to charge to bail to court to jail – Aboriginal people face a...
Aboriginal people in NSW are more likely to charged, more likely to be refused bail and more likely to spend time in jail than non-Aboriginal people who commit the same offence. The criminal justice...
View ArticleDiscrimination complaints against openly gay police demands more than silence...
Revelations that four openly gay police from the same Local Area Command have been subject to repeated discrimination from senior officers requires an immediate, and public, response from Police...
View ArticleNSW Police Minister wrong on Adler and captured by the gun lobby
NSW Police Minister Troy Grant has been captured by the ugly minority gun lobby in the NSW National Party and is seeking to impose a US style approach to gun control by lifting the ban on the Adler...
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Baird government’s sneaky move to tear down the National Adler ban
Baird’s backflip on the reclassification and importation of the Adler A110 shotgun will put community safety at risk and tear down the National Firearms Agreement. Today’s announcement sees the Baird...
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