NSW Police are again calling in specialist units to help search for Gordon Copeland after giving in to pressure from the local community.
Frank Coleman,a Ngemba man born in Brewarrina and raised in Mt Druitt,is the ninth Indigenous person to die in NSW prisons or police custody this year.
William ‘Bill’ Patrick Alwyn Haines,who died at the correctional facility on April 27,became the eighth First Nations death in Australian jails since March,four of which have occurred in NSW.
Victoria Police has confirmed body-worn camera footage of the incident is being reviewed after the Chief Commissioner said the man was in handcuffs for only a short time before.
A coronial inquest found the treatment of Ms Dhu while in custody was “inhumane and unprofessional”,with police and medical staff believing she was a “junkie” who was faking her illness.
Homicide detectives are investigating after a 32-year-old man died in police custody overnight in Melbourne’s outer south-east.
Corrective Services NSW said the man was found unresponsive in his cell at about 10am before he was pronounced dead at 11.15am.
It might be difficult for non-Indigenous people to digest,but embracing truth-telling is the first step to positive change.
A NSW parliamentary committee has called for all deaths in custody to be investigated by the state’s independent police watchdog as part of a suite of suggested reforms.
It is three decades since I tabled the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. It was an indictment then - and it remains a national disgrace today. We’ve made no advance on its key recommendation.
The head of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service says the state has gone backwards since the royal commission into deaths in custody.