Labor resists calls to reverse bail changes made after youth detention royal commission
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Nicole Manison flagged new ringleader legislation to be introduced next week.
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Changes to bail laws made following the Northern Territory youth detention royal commission will remain in place for now, as the Labor Government weathers continued anger and pressure over crime and the late-night street presence of young people in Alice Springs.
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The opposition Country Liberal Party has increased calls to reverse changes that took effect early last year
Deputy Chief Minister Nicole Manison said reviewing the changes was not the Government s focus
No officers permanently based at Angurugu police station, despite millions in federal funding
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DecDecember 2020 at 8:46pm
The station was intended to improve community safety when it opened more than a year ago.
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Residents of a remote Northern Territory community have questioned why millions of dollars were spent on a new police station when the nearest officers are still, sometimes, a 20-minute drive away.
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Instead, staff rotate through from a community 20 kilometres away
The East Arnhem Regional Council wants more police deployed to Angurugu
The station was intended to herald a new era for safety in Angurugu, a community on the Groote Eylandt archipelago in the western Gulf of Carpentaria, when Federal and Northern Territory Government politicians opened it in November 2019.
NT Police Commissioner stands by defence of officers in watch house footage
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DecDecember 2020 at 8:32am
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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.
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The NT Ombudsman says the officer substantially exceeded appropriate police conduct
Five teenage Indigenous boys arrested in the Northern Territory for stealing car
CCTV shows them being pushed and threatened by police in March 2018
One boy had his arm twisted behind his back and then slammed into the table
Another was grabbed by the neck and had his head shoved into charging table
One of the boys threatened a police officer moments before they pushed him
Police officer threatens to belt the f out of Aboriginal teenagers in Alice Springs watch house
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DecDecember 2020 at 3:22am
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A police officer has been caught on tape grabbing, shoving and verbally abusing a teenage boy in the Alice Springs watch house, before threatening to belt the f out of three others.
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The NT Ombudsman said the officer s conduct was inappropriate, but gave no detail about any official response