NSW Aboriginal deaths in custody inquiry recommends end to ‘police investigating police’

The cross-party committee also recommended ‘obscene language’ no longer be grounds for arrest

An independent body would examine any Aboriginal death in custody to stop “police investigating police”, under sweeping reforms to the justice system proposed by a New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into Aboriginal incarceration.

The NSW parliamentary committee, set up at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020, unanimously recommended that the state’s police watchdog, the Law Enforcement and Conduct Commission, investigate deaths in custody.

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