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Beyond Bars - Policing |
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More police, greater powers, less paperwork?
Often we hear people in the media saying that more police on the beat will decrease crime: We need more police, We need police doing less paper work; Police need more powers.
Actually, its a bit more complicated.
Police already hold substantial powers. As the 1997 Wood Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service found, The powers entrusted to police to carry arms, to use coercive force
and, in extreme circumstances, to take lives
to deprive citizens of their liberty
are very substantial powers.
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Police Misconduct - Introduction |
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Police Misconduct, Corruption and Abuse - Introduction
Justice Action regularly receives reports and allegations of miscarriages of justice; from within the prison walls and from community collisions with policing services.
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Miscarriage of Justice 
