Former senior NT police officer tells inquest failure to probe complaints of excessive use of force was ‘corrupt’
by Australian Associated Press from on (#6637G)
NT police service needs to be able to deal with badness in itself', coronial inquiry into police shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker told
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A former senior Northern Territory police officer has told the Kumanjayi Walker inquest that the force's failure to adequately investigate excessive use of force complaints was corrupt.
Former assistant commissioner, Nick Anticich, told the coronial inquiry into the shooting death of Walker in 2019 that the failure to adequately investigate alleged incidents in Alice Springs was wrong and shouldn't have happened".
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