GIPA request to Blue Mountains City Council ‘Preliminary Heritage Advice re. 170-174 Leura Mall’, 13 Oct 2015, provided to Blue Mountains City Council Any other heritage advice re. 170-174 Leura Mall June 2015-Dec 2016 that is not already publicly available.
GIPA to NSW Police re TASER Training
GIPA request to NSW Police Force for training materials related to TASER weapons. Information was provided in an extensive hard copy document which has been scanned in 28 parts. A highlight of the documents provided was the recommendation that police aim the weapon at the centre of body mass (near…
GIPA to NSW Police re drug dogs statistics
GIPA request to the NSW Police Force for comprehensive statistics about the operation of the NSW drug dog program including the number of people searched under the program by Local Area Command, the number of times during those searches that drugs were found, or not found. We also asked about the…
GIPA to NSW Police: Blind Reporting
Download GIPA documents released here. GIPA 1 All documents relating to protocols developed by the NSW Police Force in August 2014 for non-government agencies to use when notifying them of historical allegations of child sexual assault. (We note the existence of such protocols was identified in the NSW Ombudsman’s Issues…
GIPA re Hornsby Rifle Range and closure of Great North Walk
GIPA to the NSW Police Force as follows: Any communications to and/or from the Hornsby Rifle Range regarding safety zones or safety issues concerning the operation of the rifle range Any documents regarding consideration or proposals to close and/or limit access to bushwalking paths, including the Great North Walk, in…
GIPA to University of Sydney re Huang Jeifu Honorary professorship
Download documents from here GIPA to University of Sydney All documents relating to the granting, consideration and/or assessment of any Honorary Professorship(s) (including extensions of such professorships) to Dr Huang Jiefu; All documents relating to the granting, consideration and/or assessment of any other academic or honorary position or title to…
Police v Carrall
Judgment from Lismore Local Court 1 February 2016 where the defendant was acquitted of a positive cannabis detection while driving on the basis of an honest and reasonable mistake of fact, namely that he had not smoked for a week and a half and based on representations made by police and…
GIPA re drug detection dogs standard operating procedures
Our latest upload includes files received following a GIPA request for any Standard Operating Procedures that relate to drug detection dogs used by the NSW Police Force. Original decision included substantial redactions, these were challenged in NCAT and we received consent orders for a more complete version of the Standard…
GIPA re Roadside Drug Testing programs
Last data upload contains detailed information on police roadside drug testing programs. Click here to download the complete release. The data shows that current roadside testing does not test for any prescription drugs, despite the role these are known to play in crashes, and does not base findings on impairment…