Pat Dodson calls for Peter Dutton to convene police ministers meeting on deaths in custody

A former royal commissioner is calling on Peter Dutton to convene a meeting of state and territory police ministers to act immediately to prevent Indigenous deaths in custody, after three people died in jail in the past fortnight.

Labor senator Pat Dodson worked on the landmark Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody three decades ago.

While the exact figure on how many deaths in custody there have been since then is unknown, it is believed to be in the…