Examination of how Victoria's Special Operations Group and their tactics have contributed to the extraordinary number of police shootings in Victoria. Looks at how these tactics have been passed on to the ordinary police. Based on author's research into the paramilitarisation of the police. Exposes the risks of allowing Australia's police forces to move away from their original charter of keeping the peace with the use of minimum force. Author lectures in Police Studies at Deakin University. She has represented the families of several men shot and killed by police in the late 1980s in her work as a community lawyer.
History
Pagination
1-289
ISBN-13
9780522849608
ISBN-10
0522849601
Language
eng
Notes
Table of contents: Introduction: Paramilitary Policing and Counter-terrorism 1 1 The Police and the Military 15 2 Keeping the Peace 32 3 Calling Out the Troops 53 4 Sons of God: The Victoria Police Special Operations Group 68 5 Police and Firearms 92 6 Special Operations Group Fatal Shootings 116 7 Paramilitary Policing Goes Mainstream 150 8 Policing Dissent 174 9 Paramilitary Policing, Globalisation and the Future 214