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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Peter Brewer

Union alarm over 'soft' court outcomes putting public, police officers at risk

The Attorney General, Shane Rattenbury, has faced another attack from police after a recidivist offender released on bail allegedly aimed his car at the officers. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

The police association has delivered its most stinging rebuke yet of ACT Attorney General Shane Rattenbury, calling on him to "stop pursuing political ideologies" and describing the territory's sentencing and bail processes as "fundamentally flawed and dangerously inadequate".

The strident attack by the Australian Federal Police Association comes after an incident over the weekend in which police desperately attempted to stop recidivist offender 29-year-old Jackson Allred, who had been out on parole for a string of previous offences.

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