Police Force

Move over Underbelly, the ABC has a documentary coming up on the Wood Royal Commission and it’s look analysis of corruption within the NSW Police Force. Told by the key players themselves, Independent MP John Hatton, Justice James Wood, Counsels Gary Crooke and John Agius and Investigator Nigel Hadgkiss, The Inquisition also features dramatic reconstructions.
The Wood Royal Commission unleased an extraordinary investigation that swept through the NSW Police Force like a tsunami. For many, the stakes were life or death. Not everyone survived.

The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell underground station in 2005 raised acute issues about operational practice, legitimacy, accountability and policy making regarding police use of fatal force. It dramatically exposed a policy, referred to popularly as 'shoot to kill', which came not from Parliament but from the non-statutory ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers).

FRONTLINE and The Associated Press, in collaboration with the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism, investigate deaths that occurred after police used tactics like prone restraint and other “less-lethal force.” The documentary and accompanying reporting draw on police records, autopsy reports and body cam footage, offering the most expansive tally of such deaths nationwide.