Law Enforcement Conduct Commission finds the suspect targeting management plan (STMP) has ‘discriminatory effect’ on young people
NSW police say they have stopped using the STMP scheme on children, and will stop using it on adults by the end of the year, after a scathing LECC report.NSW police say they have stopped using the STMP scheme on children, and will stop using it on adults by the end of the year, after a scathing LECC report.police force has rushed to dump a decades-old policy on “highly intrusive” proactive policing of children after a watchdog warned the strategy was potentially unlawful.
The STMP policy was designed to prevent crime before it occurs by encouraging proactive policing strategies, including consistently monitoring targets in the community, subjecting them to searches and visiting them at their homes. The LECC found the plan was unreasonably “intrusive and disruptive” to young people’s day-to-day lives, and there was a consistent overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people as targets.
The LECC’s chief commissioner, Peter Johnson, said it was “important for police to act lawfully and in line with the established legal framework”.“We look forward to working with the police force as it develops a new approach to responding to young people who are engaged in, or at risk of, offending.”
Despite the changes, the proportion of Aboriginal young people targeted under the program continued to be “extremely high”.
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