Is it ever against the Law not to Report an Alleged Crime?
The NSW police service encourages the reporting of crimes. Police rely upon community tip-offs, particularly via Crime Stoppers which is the NSW Police Force community-based initiative for crime reporting. According to the NSW Police website, Crime Stoppers has contributed to...
Police Integrity Commission – Who Polices the Police?
The police force is in place to deal with members of the community who break the law, but what happens when a police officer is suspected of a crime? The Police Integrity Commission (PIC) was set up in 1996 by...
Six Police Charged following an ICAC Investigation
The latest in a long string of ICAC investigations has surfaced in South Australia. Today’s headlines announced that six South Australian police officers were charged with serious offences and faced court today. The investigation by ICAC and the state’s anti-corruption...
ICAC Requests New Anti-Corruption Laws
According to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), current laws are not enough to prosecute public figures who are accused of protecting their own financial interests. The head of the ICAC, Megan Latham, recently requested that the Crimes Act be...
Over Policing of Indigenous Australians and the Trifecta of Charges
The Australian Human Rights Commission states that Indigenous Australians are 17.3 times more likely to be arrested than Non-Indigenous Australians. In Western Australia, the Indigenous over-representation rate is four times the national average. Indigenous people are twice as likely as...
Sydney Crime Rates Impacted by Parole, Study Suggests
Figures released recently by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) suggest that NSW crime rates, including Sydney crime rates, can be affected by whether or not those who have served their time in prison are granted parole....
Changes to Crash Reporting Requirements in NSW
The laws surrounding how and when traffic accidents should be reported have been changed, with the amended laws due to come into force on October 15. These changes, which are intended to streamline crash-reporting processes and alleviate time spent by...
Is the NSW One Punch Law Working to Reduce Violence?
The NSW one punch law has recently been put to the test with the first person being charged under the controversial new legislation, which the government says seems to be working in the fight to reduce alcohol-fuelled violence on Sydney...
Several NSW Speed Cameras will be Removed
Most of us have been guilty of speeding a little at some point through our driving lifetime, and judging by the $150 million in revenue raised by speeding fines across NSW in the last financial year, drivers fork out a...
Terror: On Words, Power and Perception
The stock-in-trade of the media is words. Sometimes dry, sometimes emotional, these words greet the public with an air of factual authority – whatever the platform. Recently in Australia reportage on the topic of ‘terror’ has been thought-provoking at times,...
