NSW Police Officers Under Investigation for Assaulting NRL Player
The three New South Wales Police Officers who punched NRL player Tom Starling multiple times in the face during a violent arrest on 5 December 2020 are now under investigation and could face criminal charges over the assault. The incident occurred...
The NSW Police State: Excessive Force, Lethal Assault, Strip Searches and Dog Monitoring
The lethal tasering of 95-year-old Clare Nowland, who, suffering dementia, was holding a steak knife and approaching a NSW police senior constable at such a pace with the aid of her walking frame that he felt he had no choice but...
UK Police Officer Stood Down for Pointing Taser at Elderly Woman
While the use of tasers by police officers comes under public scrutiny in New South Wales - with several confirmed incidents of mentally ill persons being fatally wounded as a result of being tasered, a 95-year old woman being fatally...
NSW Has a Police Problem, Says Higginson, “Use of Excessive Force and Misconduct are Systemic”
NSW police senior constable Kristian White pulled his taser out, as 95-year-old great-grandmother Clare Nowland, who was holding a steak knife, was approaching with the aid of her walking frame, and the 33-year-old officer then stunned her with his device....
‘Representations’ Can Result in Criminal Charges Being Withdrawn
Olympic boxer Harry Garside has a nervous wait ahead after his criminal defence lawyers told a court this week they have made formal representations to the New South Wales Police Force requesting that the domestic violence-related proceedings against their client...
NSW Police Officer Charged with Assault Over Fatal Tasering of Great-Grandmother
The New South Wales police officer who tasered a 95-year old woman at an aged care facility has been charged with recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, after the great-grandmother who suffered from dementia died in hospital as a result of...
Fatally Tasering Great-Grandmothers Is Par for the Course for the NSW Police Force
“The role of a police officer seems to be growing wider and wider and we are expected to know everything about everything,” NSW police commissioner Karen Webb told Sunrise on Tuesday morning. And she added that state law enforcement officers “are...
NSW Police Officer Found Guilty of Assault For Slamming Teen to the Ground
A New South Wales Police Officer has been found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm after slamming a 16-year old Indigenous youth into the ground in Sydney’s inner suburbs. The defended hearing took place in Downing Centre Local Court...
Queensland Police Commissioner Bows to Police Union by Backflipping on Chokehold Directive
The Head of the Queensland Police Union (QPU), Ian Leavers, has told the state’s police officers they can defy a direction issued by Queensland Police Commissioner, Katarina Carroll, to prohibit the use of potentially deadly ‘chokeholds’ on members of the...
Can a Social Media Post Amount to a Criminal Offence?
New South Wales politician Alex Greenwich MP has threatened a three-prong legal attack against former politician and One Nation candidate Mark Latham over a homophobic Tweet posted earlier this year. But the One Nation Leader remains resolute in his refusal...
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