LAWS398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Australian Federal Police, New South Wales Police Force, Queensland Police Service

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Law/Law Participation and Community Engagement
• Course: LAWS398
• Professor: Sonya Willis

Document Summary

Police power to require identity to be disclosed. The law of what police can do does not always govern police behaviour and conduct. They don"t view the law as a series of limitations, they do what they are taught to do and if they are called to account, they only then look to lepra to justify their actions. Most people respond and assist police in the hope to be treated better. Intro to lepra: evidence act, powers of arrest, use of force. The police" refers to a particular authorised body or institution (e. g. the nsw police. Force, australian federal police, queensland police, etc): broadly speaking, policing refers to the whole gambit of oversight, surveillance, intelligence and social control that may be utilised to maintain public order. " [roderic. Broadhurst and sara e davies (eds), policing in context: an introduction to police work in australia (oxford university press, 2009) 3].