Paul Greggorie reports for Sydney Criminal Lawyers
When NSW police constable Daniel Keneally answered the phone at Newtown Police Station on 24 February 2021 to speak to the caller, Luke Brett Moore, neither man knew the other.
Wanting to discuss this state’s police misuse of strip searches, Moore was happy to talk with whichever officer happened to be on phone duty that day, as he’d been the subject of an illegal strip search in 2017.
Recent years have seen the misuse and overuse of these searches the focus of a campaign led by former NSW Greens MLC David Shoebridge and the Redfern Legal Centre, as well as the invasive practice having been the subject of a Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) inquiry.
During an interview on strip search misuse in August, Redfern Legal Centre senior police accountability solicitor Samantha Lee suggested it’s time for another Royal Commission into NSW police, in terms of how its operating “beyond the legislative framework” and its “cultural demise”.
“There is obviously a culture of corruption and coverup,” Moore said in conclusion. “They tried to cover it up from the moment it started happening.”
Read the full article (7 October 2022).
