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Police legal costs blow out to $60m – more than it spends on choppers – The Age
The figure represents a 400 per cent increase in legal costs incurred by the force since 2015, when Graham Ashton was first appointed chief commissioner.
A Victoria Police spokesman said the $60 million spent over the past financial year covered all legal costs, including the cost of solicitors and barristers for the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants and any civil settlements.
Last year, Victoria Police agreed to the state’s largest financial settlement for excessive force over the shooting of Dale Ewins and Zita Sukys at a Melbourne nightclub in 2017.
Dale Ewins and Zika Sukys.Credit:Facebook
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