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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Michael McGowan

NSW police accused of ‘oppressive’ tactics against subjects on secretive blacklist

Documents released under a parliamentary order reveal that NSW police are encouraged to ‘attempt to cultivate family members’ of subject on a secretive blacklist ‘as sources’ by ‘attending and re-attending their homes’.
Documents released under a parliamentary order reveal that NSW police are encouraged to ‘attempt to cultivate family members’ of subject on a secretive blacklist ‘as sources’ by ‘attending and re-attending their homes’. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

The New South Wales police have been accused of using “oppressive” and potentially unlawful tactics on subjects of a secretive blacklist disproportionately used to target young Indigenous people.

Documents released under a parliamentary order have for the first time revealed how police in the state are instructed to use the suspect target management plan, or STMP, an opaque tool previously found to have utilised “unreasonable” and “unjust” tactics against its targets.

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