An alarming and steady surge in serious and violent crime by young people in New South Wales is the key driver of a new youth violence strategy presented to the ANZPAA conference in Melbourne last month.
Our 2022 annual conference, under the banner of Policing: Future Challenges, left delegates with no illusions about the enormity of what lies ahead for policing, how closely what we do is intertwined with our whole society and how responsibilities need to be shared.
Constable Sophie Allison was off duty, “minding my own business”, doing some supermarket shopping in the early afternoon of Monday, May 10, 2021, when she heard “the sort of screaming that makes your heart sink”.
It was a return to "normality" at the 87th Police Association Annual Conference last month as president Chris Cahill made his opening address to a full in-person crowd for the first time since 2019.