âYou have no place in this organisationâ: Top cop issues warning after spate of police misconduct, illegal activity
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Victoriaâs police chief has issued a stern warning to his members that misconduct and criminal behaviour will not be tolerated following a recent spate of âextremely troublingâ cases among its ranks.
In a memo sent to officers this week, Chief Commissioner Shane Patton slammed the behaviour of a select few employees, citing the impact the cases had on the publicâs faith in the force.
Supreme Court dispute over three square metres of land
It s not often the old Aussie terms squatters
rights and dunny come up in court. However, these
terms were quite liberally thrown around in a recent case, where
two people were disputing the ownership of a dunny
lane . (See
Located in Redfern, the dunny lane was situated between two
properties, belonging respectively to Mr Hardy and Mr Sidoti. This
small throughway was once used by carters to pick up buckets of
waste from the outdoor toilets (aka dunnies).
The lane at the centre of this Supreme Court dispute measured
only 88 centimetres in width and 3.81 metres in length, making a