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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ariel Bogle and Christopher Knaus

Revealed: Australian police accused of improperly accessing force databases more than 2,000 times

A composite of various images of police officers and generic police tape
Police forces in Australia have fielded hundreds of complaints about misuse of information and unauthorised access of internal police databases since 2020. Composite: Getty Images/AAP

Fran* noticed her son-in-law’s behaviour was escalating. She says he was increasingly controlling of her daughter Sarah’s* life – monitoring her finances and being verbally abusive.

The three were all living together and the situation felt particularly risky because he was a police officer. He had surveillance skills and access to information that seemed to give him a sense of power, and he held it over their heads.

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