Talk:Victoria Police

Cleanup

Needs a fair bit of cleanup. Things like the "joke between a NSW and VIC police officer" seem a bit misplaced.

Entrenched racism in Victorian Police

On March'2nd 2010, HeraldSun reported that police drove home an australian racist thug who was injured while bashing a 60-year-old Indian man. Mr. Ranjit Sahasranaman, the father of two, has told how he was forced to defend his Carrum Downs home from a group of 25 drunken thugs for a terrifying 2 1/2 hours early on Sunday morning before police dispersed the gang. Mr Sahasranaman said he called police up to four times before they finally responded. "I told them my life was in danger, but they kept asking silly questions," he said. "Finally I told them we are going to die. What was I supposed to do? If the police say they can't do it, then I have to do it myself." Mr Sahasranaman claimed police did not take his statement and made no arrests despite apprehending several of the louts. "All they are good for is barbecue, dinner and dance," he said. "They left a letter in my mailbox asking me to contact Crime Stoppers." Frustrated neighbours rallied behind the respected family, who have endured 10 years of harassment from louts who hang out at a bus stop directly outside their Fernwren Place home. "It's just heartbreaking," Jodie Burford said. "I feel ashamed. Their home has been vandalised before but this was clearly a racial attack." Mr Sahasranaman said he would be forced to defend his family by whatever means possible should the gang return. "They said they'd come back and kill me, but I will be ready," he said. "There is no choice. Why should I move when I'm a citizen of Australia?" —Preceding unsigned comment added by CRAustralia1 (talk • contribs) 03:41, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Tenez le droit

Any evidence for claims? When I run the phrase through a simple translator, it comes back as "uphold the right"... and apparently "droit" means right in French. The info, if actually true (doubtful), is poorly phrased and may not be well-suited for the article's introduction.Jackk 09:03, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Like "right", "droit" means many things, including the English meaning "right" instead of "left". It can also mean "straight". In French, it's generally used in the plural to indicate "justice". "Uphold the right" in the intended sense (and not, for example, "hold up your right hand") could only be translated as "tenez les droits" (plural, "uphold the rights"). In the singular, the best translation is "hold it straight", matching the punctuation "tenez-le droit". Clearly it was a good idea to revert to a language that the police understand. Should this be added to the main page? Groogle (talk) 11:39, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Shooting of Graeme Jensen (events leading to Walsh Street)

Just found an article from 3 years ago with details on the events leading to Jensen's death and the controversy surrounding it by John Silvester. --BenM 13:58, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Headquarters

Isn't police headquarters in the complex at St Kilda Road? Why does the box say it's in Flinders Street?MickBarnes 22:19, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

As far as I know, force headquarters is the Victoria Police Centre at the World Trade Centre in Flinders Street. --Richmeister_talk 22:27, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I can confirm that it's in the World Trade Centre. The whitepages calls it the Victoria Police Centre. Josh Parris 05:25, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Victoria Police Tagged for Cleanup for 2 years.

I've had a look over this article now, and it's reading a lot better than it was compared to even 2 months ago let alone 2 years. I'm going to go ahead and remove the cleanup tag from this article. I'm sure this article could still use a little attention and ongoing work as most articles on Wikipedia do. But in general, it's readable and informative. Pursey 12:21, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Additional Cleanup

Hey,

I've done a bit more work on this article. I've tidied up a few red links, fixed up the unreferenced statements by providing citations, and updated the statistics included in the article already. This article has been submitted for re-assessment. Pursey 04:27, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Assessment

Remains at B class, you need to take it to WP:GA to get a higher assessment. I would suggest adding more references and writing them in a better style than just blue URL code, i.e. with retrieval dates, titles and so on. :) SGGH ^speak! 11:17, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:VictoriaPoliceFlag.JPG

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BetacommandBot 19:30, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Victoria Police Vehicles

Should we add some stuff about the VicPol cars, booze buses and helicopters? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_car#Asia.2FOceania has a couple of pics and I'm sure that there are OS pics of the older cars as well. Libwolf (talk) 12:23, 9 May 2008 (UTC) Libwolf

Go for it I say. The NSWPOL article has such a section. -- Aαron 13:30, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Police brutality

Why isn't this mentioned? --193.198.16.211 (talk) 13:26, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

For one, this article is for the Victoria Police of AUSTRALIA. Nothing to do with Canada. I think I'll leave it at that... -- Aαron 05:09, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Then what about this http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/cop-questioned-by-inquiry-suspended/story-e6frfku9-1111116604757 or this http://www.solidarity.net.au/web/rally-against-racist-attacks-photos-report/ or This http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/police-punched-indian-protesters/story-e6frfku0-1225719210408 or this http://www.news.com.au/police-too-reliant-on-guns-in-volatile-situations-inquiry/story-0-1225756235843 or this http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/cops-taking-drugs-should-be-punished/story-e6frfku0-1225759118868 or this http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/top-cop-gave-false-figures-police-association/story-e6frfku0-1225759909827 or this http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/28/2669947.htm or this http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/police-dna-bungle-puts-7000-cases-in-doubt/2008/08/06/1217702123610.html

Nuff said. I've got hundreds more. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.166.123 (talk) 10:19, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Marked for POV - Neutrality

Article has been marked by editor Backslash_Forwardslash as needing to be checked for neutrality (and the note says, "particularly in re undue weight"). Can anyone please show me where the issue is so it can be discussed, there is nothing here in the talk page to suggest what the issue may be, if there is a problem than lets get it sorted. Thanks for your help. inherentrisks 18:13, 10 September 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Inherentrisks (talk • contribs)

I don't know about that nutralist issue, but my nutrality issue is that you have a section about

Officers killed on duty

But I don't see a corrosponding section to show the multitudes of people killed by Victorian police. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.166.123 (talk) 00:11, 6 December 2009 (UTC)