GIPA to Police re the Standard Operating Procedures in regards to Protest Laws in New South Wales. GIPA to Police for: All training materials, guidelines, circulars, memorandums, policy documents, procedure documents, standard operating procedures or other materials provided to police officers regarding application of the powers under Part 14 of…
GIPA to Police re Consorting
GIPA to Police requesting information regarding the results of consorting laws in NSW, in particular the results from a rise in consorting laws used by local individual police command. GIPA to Police requesting: 1. How many warnings have been given to those “associating” under the consorting laws in: 2012? 2013? 2014?…
GIPA to NSW Police re PTSD Training
GIPA request to NSW Police Force for training materials related to PTSD training. The information requested was in relation to the way officers and cadets at the NSW Police Force Academy were instructed in dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), including PTSD suffered by themselves and their colleagues. GIPA Request…
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…
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…