Discriminatory policing
Media and commentary related to our work in collaboration with First Nations partner organisations to call out discriminatory police practices.
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PIAC welcomes new report on First Nations incarceration: but action is needed
On the 30th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, PIAC has welcomed many of the recommendations of a new Report tabled in NSW Parliament today. The Joint Select Committee on the High Level of First Nations People in Custody and Oversight and Review of Deaths in Custody has handed down 39…
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Legal organisations remain concerned about the impact of secret policy on children and young people
A coalition of NSW legal and social justice organisations have reiterated serious concerns about the application of the NSW Police’s Suspect Targeting Management Plan (STMP) to children and young people. The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research has today released its evaluation of whether there is an association between the use of the STMP…
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Calls for greater transparency and accountability for secret ‘STMP’ policing policy and its impact on young people
PIAC has welcomed calls by a NSW Parliamentary Committee for greater transparency and accountability in relation to the way the NSW Police Force applies the Suspect Targeting Management Plan (STMP) to children and young people. The STMP is a secret NSW Police policy that has been used by police to single out young people for…
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More than 50% of those on secretive NSW police blacklist are Aboriginal
‘More than half the people on a secretive New South Wales police blacklist are Aboriginal, the state’s top law enforcement officer has revealed.’ ”The NSW police commissioner, Mick Fuller, says about 55% of people who are currently the subject of a Suspect Target Management Plan are Indigenous, prompting accusations that police are using a “racially…