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The New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime was initially published on 2 January 1854 as the New South Wales Reports of Crime and was initially published several times per week by the Office of the Inspector General of Police for distribution to all police stations. The NSW State Archives and Records describe it as containing ...
December 15 –The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission hands down a final report detailing the findings of its two-year inquiry into strip search practices employed by NSW Police. The report made reference to several previous investigations undertaken by the LECC, including several investigations which had not previously been disclosed to the ...
The report also made reference to a 5th complaint made by two women who had allegedly been strip searched outside Sydney's Star Casino in January 2019. That incident had been investigated by NSW Police but the investigation was not overseen by the Commission. The women had reportedly been stopped after an indication from a drug detection dog.
The Court's ruling was mentioned in a leaked internal report published by NSW Police in November 2018. The report, which had been prepared by the Force's Lessons Learned Unit, acknowledged that officers had routinely been failing to adhere to legal requirements when conducting strip searches, stating that "there is both a lack of compliance and ...
The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) is the main source of NSW crime statistics. In 2017 BOCSAR reported an overall drop in recorded incidence with the murder rate (down 12.1%), robbery (down 8.0%), armed robbery (down 13.4%), burglary (down 5.5%), motor vehicle theft (Down 3.2%) and malicious damage to property (down 3.6%).
The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission oversights, monitors and investigates allegations of serious misconduct by the NSW Police Force (NSWPF) and NSW Crime Commission (NSWCC). It was set up on 1 July 2017 to replace the Police Integrity Commission [1] and the Police and Compliance Branch of the Office of the Ombudsman [2]
The commission was established under the Police Integrity Act 1996 (NSW). The act set out the principal functions of the commission. They included: [6] preventing, detecting or investigating serious police misconduct; managing or overseeing other agencies in the detection and investigation of serious police misconduct and other police ...
On April 14, 2014, it was reported that the NSW Council for Civil Liberties and the NSW opposition were concerned about the lack of oversight into reporting after Ombudsman Bruce Barbour found police were breaching the Surveillance Devices Act 2007 (NSW) by recording outside warrant terms and failing to report back to judges and the Attorney ...