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Australian Police Service Standards are in Decline · The Slippery Slope

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  Oh, I'm Jay Fallon and thank you for listening to the slippery
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  slope. So for quite a while now, I've
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  been of the opinion at that police in Australia, are on
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  while they're traveling in the wrong direction.
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  So, our state's and our territories are each, have their
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  own Police Department. So, here in Queensland where I
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  live, it's quite a large state by area.
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  Anyway, and it is, you know, we have the Queensland police.
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  Ever. So every state or territory has
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  their own service like that in my opinion.
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  I think we are seeing the decline, the deterioration of
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  police departments in each state and territory morals.
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  Ethics seem to be on the decline, within police services,
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  and I believe that we are seeing this nation slowly turning
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  towards a police state system. It is definitely a lot more
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  politically motivated. Debated.
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  And, as I said, morals and ethics, you know, the standard
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  for morals and ethics Now, by police seems to be very low.
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  There is a lot of there. We seem to have a lot of issues
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  when it comes to different police departments around the
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  nation. So today I want to talk about
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  this article that just came through and it is about
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  Victoria's Elite Police Unit. Okay, there.
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  This headline says, which is from the age it says Is that
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  Victoria is Elite Police Unit, acted inconsistently with human
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  rights Charter. So the Victoria's police Elite
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  Tactical Unit has been running high risk operations at that.
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  Have resulted in serious injuries and alleged human
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  rights abuses without proper planning.
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  Obtaining authorization to intervene and properly
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  documenting, its use of force of cording to the state speak
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  Integrity body. The latest, damning assessment
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  of the critical incident Response Team, otherwise known
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  as cert, which was heavily involved in responding to the
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  2017 Bourke Street killings. By James Garcia sulis has been
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  released by The Independent broad-based anti-corruption
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  commission. Otherwise known as I back, the
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  eye back report focuses on certs conduct at three high-profile
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  incidents including the 2017. The shooting of two people at a
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  CBD nightclub and the 2019 botched raid on the hairs and
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  Haynes book shop in Fitzroy. That left an innocent man.
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  Seriously injured. It found a series of misconduct
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  risks and issues that show, cert, acted unilaterally to
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  insert themselves into Police Operations.
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  Without the knowledge of on-scene commanders failed to
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  conduct risk. Moments of volatile situations
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  even after being presented with information that Circumstances
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  had changed and routinely failed to properly document its use of
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  force or active or activate body-worn cameras.
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  It also found, the unit was defined by a hyper masculine
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  culture where more than 90% of officers are men.
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  Personally, I don't think there's anything really wrong
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  with that. However, it depends on the
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  culture that you cultivate Anyway, going on, it says a
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  Victorian police. Spokesperson said the force
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  acknowledges I backs report and we'll take the time to the to
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  consider its six recommendations and noted that previous
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  recommendations made after those incidents had already been
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  accepted. As many in the community, would
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  be aware the critical incident Response.
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  Team operates in a complex environment that involves
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  significant risk to the public or the police and certain
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  members, the It's been said, so in the nightclub shooting
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  incident, I back said that cert officers did not revise their
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  plan to storm the venue and confront the patron, despite
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  confirming that the suspect was carrying a plastic.
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  Yes, a plastic imitation gun. You hear that plastic imitation
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  gun. They knew it at a dress up.
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  Swingers party. Going on.
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  I back off. So said, Victoria Police command
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  have rejected the findings of its own internal review, Into
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  the incident that demonstrated that there was safer, reasonable
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  and less forceful options available, then the tactical
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  response deployed by cert. Well, G.
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  So then this is what I mean by police.
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  Having it's really hard to take them seriously.
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  When they talk about, you know, Little investigations, because
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  their own findings their own findings said that there were
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  safer and more reasonable less false forceful options and they
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  rejected them. It's hard to take these police
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  forces. Please Services.
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  Seriously. So going on in this article, it
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  says that so adheres and Hain heinous, the report found that
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  cert intervened in the hunt for the suspect that was mistakenly
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  believed to have fled into the Bookshop without Without
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  informing police already involved in the operation.
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  The officer in charge said that they were not aware of certs
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  attendance until advised over police radio that a person was
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  in custody. So it also condemned the failure
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  of the arresting officer to explain to the man who was later
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  determined to be innocent. Okay.
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  So he this officer failed to explain to this innocence man.
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  Why he had been arrested and he failed to advise him of his
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  rights. In other words, what they're not
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  saying here is that was an unlawful completely unlawful
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  arrest completely unlawful. The officer should have, then
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  been, he should have been fired, he probably should have been
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  charged with something himself, actually, but going on.
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  So I backed down that the officers involved in the
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  incident. May have acted inconsistently
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  with the Victorian chair. Charter of Human Rights and
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  responsibilities the report notes.
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  Victorian police has implemented a series of changes to its
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  training policies and procedures since these incidences now, so
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  that's happening in Victorious. Just happened in Victoria and
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  but also in in Queensland here we have had a large inquiry into
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  the response and the actions of Queensland Police Service
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  officers when it comes to domestic.
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  Violence incidents also, the general culture with domestic
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  violence and racism amongst officers within the Queensland.
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  Police Service. Our police services are in the
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  decline. They have continued to lower the
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  bar, Lower the standards when they are looking for new
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  recruits purely because they have rejected or they have
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  forced out a lot of older police officers, a lot of police
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  officers have been leaving. Because they are so unhappy.
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  So, unhappy with the direction that police services are going
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  there because things are so political, because they have
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  forced officers to take to take the jab things like this because
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  the culture has been declining and because morals, ethics have
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  been declining deteriorating. So deplorably.
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  So, the answer for police services has been, hey, let's
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  lower the standards for new recruits so we can get more
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  Equal. So this story came from
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  Victoria. As I said, there's been major
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  major issues in a big investigation within the
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  Queensland Police Service in Australia, our police are in
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  trouble. When you allow moral standards
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  Integrity to decline when you continue to overlook unethical
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  behavior, when you lower standards of operators of
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  officers, when you lower the standards, when you Recruits
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  purely. So you can get numbers and not.
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  So you can get quality, you are going to have problems.
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  We are just starting to see these issues, raise their ugly
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  head now in a year or two, maybe a little more, the issues are
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  really going to rear their ugly head.
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  We are in for a hard hard ride here when it comes to our police
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  here in Australia, Australian policing is on the decline.
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  Becoming a law. They are becoming a law unto
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  themselves. That's my opinion.
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  And I've got a lot more to say about the police, but I won't
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  say it now. Anyway, that's just my plate.
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  In my opinion. Thank you for listening.
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