NSW police accused of ‘oppressive’ tactics against subjects on secretive blacklist

Lawyers say the preventive policing' suspect target management plan, which disproportionately focuses on Indigenous youth, uses potentially unlawful tactics

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The New South Wales police have been accused of using oppressive" and potentially unlawful tactics on subjects of a secretive blacklist disproportionately used to target young Indigenous people.

Documents released under a parliamentary order have for the first time revealed how police in the state are instructed to use the suspect target management plan, or STMP, an opaque tool previously found to have utilised unreasonable" and unjust" tactics against its targets.