WA's Corruption and Crime Commission declares police efforts to investigate its own officers were 'inadequate' after the 'unlawful and unjust' arrest of an Indigenous teen.
Concerns were raised after WA Police arrested a 14-year-old Indigenous girl who was walking home at night.
WA's Corruption and Crime Commission has delivered scathing findings regarding the arrest of a teenage girl, saying it was unlawful and unjust.The 14-year-old Aboriginal girl was arrested in March 2022, when she was on her way home from a friend's house at night.The CCC was highly critical, saying the "arrest and subsequent force used were unlawful, unreasonable, oppressive and unjust".
But WA Police mainly cleared the officers, who said they simply stopped the girl to ask her name, given the late hour, and couldn't find it on the database. An investigation said the force used was not excessive, but the CCC said body-worn camera footage showed officers had been "quick to escalate" their force.It did say the officers had not provided the girl with her rights, and did not make a record of the incident.
Referring to the body-worn camera footage, it said: "Review of the BWC footage evidenced the incident involving a young Aboriginal girl, in which police were quick to escalate the use of force.A Corruption and Crime Commission inquiry into WA's ombudsman sees swipe card records that show he only spent 36 days in the office over a year, as details of a deal he entered into with the OECD are probed.
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