In What Circumstances Can NSW Police Officers Discharge Tasers?
Australians are united in their outrage over the killing of 95-year-old great grandmother Clare Nowland, following her tasering by a senior constable of the New South Wales Police Force, Kristian White, at Yallambee Lodge aged care facility in Cooma. Prosecutors...
AI Generated Images Are Being Used To Catch Online Sexual Predators
The recent released film The Artifice Girl depicts the use of a fictitious child generated by artificial intelligence (AI) to lure and trap online child sexual predators. Whilst many features of the film are purely science fiction, police in Australia will often...
The Rules Regarding NSW Police Use of Body Worn Cameras
Steven Pampalian was shot dead by officers of the New South Wales Police Force following a confrontation in Sydney’s lower north shore on Thursday, 25 May 2023. According to reports, emergency services were called to Alexander Street, North Willoughby at...
The Rules for Determining Parole for ‘Serious Offenders’ in NSW
Serial killer Paul Denyer has been refused parole in Victoria, three decades after he received three life sentences for murdering three women over a seven week period in Melbourne’s south-east. The fact Denyer is eligible to apply for release on...
Neo-Nazis Openly Demonstrating on the Australian Streets Is a Dire Concern
Nazis have existed in Australian suburbia going back at least as far as the 1980s. The early 90s movie Romper Stomper is testament to that. But these groups were fractured and unorganised. And whilst committing the odd act of vandalism or...
Thorpe Warns of Rising Custody Deaths, as Underfunded Aboriginal Legal Services Shut
The Aboriginal Legal Service shut down operations in thirteen regional areas of NSW on 15 May of this year, not due to there being any lack of demand for its services, but due to the fact that federal funding has not...
‘Representations’ Can Result in Criminal Charges Being Withdrawn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...
The History of Currency Counterfeiting and Evolution of Counterfeiting Offences
This article is the first in a series of counterfeiting, with a different subject to be discussed in subsequent articles. Today’s subject is on counterfeiting currency, both coinage and banknotes, notwithstanding items such as ingots and a specific sea shell...
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...
