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Blue army : paramilitary policing in Australia

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posted on 2001-01-01, 00:00 authored by J McCulloch
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

Publication classification

A1 Books - authored - research

Publisher

Melbourne University Press

Place of publication

Carlton South, Vic.