Victoria has passed urgent retrospective laws to undo an administrative bungle that resulted in more than 1000 police officers operating without valid powers.
The blunder, revealed late last month and created by legislative changes in 2013, meant 1076 police officers, 157 protective service officers and 29 police custody officers were unlawfully sworn in by acting assistant commissioners.
It means those officers made arrests, pressed charges and issued orders without valid powers from July 2014 to August 2021.
