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NT Police Commissioner stands by defence of officers in watch house footage
A former commissioner in the Northern Territory’s royal commission into youth justice has criticised the Police Commissioner’s response to footage showing a police officer shoving, verbally abusing and threatening a teenage boy in the Alice Spring watch house after the boy made a verbal threat.
Key points:
- Mr Gooda says the Police Commissioner has failed to adequately condemn officers’ actions
- The NT Ombudsman says the officer “substantially exceeded” appropriate police conduct
- The Police Commissioner has said the footage shows an officer pushed to the brink
The incident, revealed by the ABC after a lengthy Freedom of Information battle, took place in March 2018 — four months after the youth detention royal commission delivered its…
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