Police hurt in Kununurra brawls

A female officer was punched in the face by a woman and a second officer was also hit before both were pelted with rocks and bottles. The mob turned on the officers after they arrested a 20-year-old man for a breach of bail and placed him in the back of a police van.

Amazing video of police bashing

A BRITISH woman is suring police after an officer was filmed punching her five times during an arrest.
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Police had been called when Comer vandalised a car. As the officer attempted to put handcuffs on Comer, he hit her five times with his fist. She pleaded guilty today to criminal damage. She admitted to being drunk at the time but could not remember it.
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The officer, identified only as PC Mulhall, was quoted by Newsnight as saying: "She began to kick, spit and make attempts to bite me. As her hands became free, she tried to grab handfuls of my genitals and knee and kick me in the same place. "At this point, I struck her as hard as I was physically able with my right fist in an attempt to subdue her. There was no apparent effect, so I did it twice more.

12yo boy leads police on 130km Top End car chase

A 12-YEAR-OLD boy was among a gang of five who hurled a television at a patrol car as they led police on a 130km-long pursuit yesterday. The youths fled in an allegedly stolen four-wheel-drive at up to 140km/h yesterday. The teens also threw head rests and floor mats out of the window in the way of pursuing police as they raced down the Stuart Highway at up to 140km/h.

Police defend S11 payout

Victoria Police is standing by a secret deal to pay $700,000 to S11 riot protesters. The force insists a settlement to end action against hundreds of officers accused of brutality during clashes outside the World Economic Forum in 2000 is appropriate. Protesters spat on police, poured urine on them and and threw ballbearings, marbles, nails, nuts and bolts during violent scuffles. Dozens of anti-globalisation campaigners sued and blamed injuries, including fractures, shock and anxiety, on police action. The payout has infuriated Police Association head Paul Mullett. Police Minister Bob Cameron said the settlement aborted action against individual officers and was reached on the advice of an insurer.
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The protesters sued the state of Victoria and 953 officers who worked at the riot. The Sunday Herald Sun revealed the Government and Victoria Police agreed to a $700,000 payment to 47 protesters and to law firm Slater and Gordon, which is expected to get $600,000.

QLD Police death shock

IPSWICH police were yesterday in mourning as news filtered through about the death of one of their own. A 26-year-old constable was found dead by passers-by on the beach at Main Beach in the early hours of yesterday morning. It is believed he had been shot with his service pistol.
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Police later said they no longer considered the death to be suspicious. It is believed the constable was in his first year of service and had only been on the job three months. It is believed he was undergoing difficulties in his personal life.

Police brain drain fear

ALMOST a quarter of South Australian police officers have been in the job fewer than four years, raising concerns about a brain drain within the force. Documents obtained by The Advertiser show 920 of the force's 4170 officers had less than four years' service. This does not include the 118 cadets now being trained at the police academy.

Police Association president Peter Alexander said the force had a lack of experienced officers on the beat as well as in specialist areas, such as CIBs. "The issue of experience is a concern in this police force and other police forces in Australia at the moment," he said yesterday. "It's one of those occupations where it does take a number of years."

Police car, taxi collide

The cars collided at an intersection in inner suburban Hawthorn about 1.25am (AEDT) as the police divisional van was pursuing a speeding car, police said. The police car had its lights and siren activated when it entered the intersection of Barkers Road and High Street and collided with a taxi.