POLICE – LAW AND LEGISLATION – VICTORIA

Police warn they lack bikie powers

roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Chris Vedelago, Nick Toscano
The Age – Page: 4 : 17-Nov-14

The High Court of Australia has backed the Queensland Government’s Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment laws targeting outlaw motorcycle gangs. The Police Association of Victoria is urging the Victorian Government to roll out similar measures and to help police crack down on organised crime in the heavy haulage and debt collection sectors. Police are said to be frustrated at the lack of legal powers to carry out checks during a run into Melbourne on 15 November 2014 by the Mongols gang

CORPORATES
VICTORIA POLICE, VICTORIA. OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, THE POLICE ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA, MONGOLS MC, HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA, UNITED MOTORCYCLE COUNCIL OF QUEENSLAND, VICTORIAN LAW REFORM COMMISSION, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY

Police to get new secret search power

roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Henrietta Cook, Tom Cowie
The Age – Page: 2 : 30-Oct-14

The Victorian Government, if re-elected in late November 2014, will make changes to the law on criminal investigation powers of the police force. Greg Barns, a barrister and the spokesperson for the Australian Lawyers Alliance, has voiced concern at the proposal to make it legal to gain fingerprints and DNA samples from those "suspected" rather than "believed" to have committed an offence. Law Institute of Victoria criminal law section co-chair Sam Norton has also criticised planned new covert warrants that will let police search homes in secret

CORPORATES
VICTORIA POLICE, VICTORIA. OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, LAW INSTITUTE OF VICTORIA, AUSTRALIAN LAWYERS ALLIANCE