Crime crackdown in Adelaide opposed by law society
The South Australian law society has slammed the state government's decision to roll out stricter crime laws in Adelaide's CBD.
Category
đź“ş
TVTranscript
00:00 The laws we are talking about have already been in place for almost a decade, but up
00:06 until recently they've only been able to be enforced on Friday and Saturday between 6pm
00:11 and 6am.
00:12 Those laws do allow police to be able to search someone for weapons or drugs, they can remove
00:17 someone from a location or ban someone from a venue for 24 hours, and they can also remove
00:22 a child if they are at risk or if they are behaving badly.
00:28 Up until recently, or for the past month now, the police have been able to enforce those
00:33 laws seven nights a week.
00:36 The Law Society of South Australia have really slammed this crackdown saying it could be
00:40 putting vulnerable people at risk.
00:43 They've said that these changes are disproportionate and the changes are not addressing the issues
00:50 that are leading to antisocial behaviour in the first place.
00:54 Now the whole reason these laws were introduced and the stricter laws have come into place
01:02 is to try and really reduce crime in the Adelaide CBD.
01:06 We did hear from the Assistant Police, the Acting Police Commissioner last month who
01:11 said the crime in the Adelaide city has actually been quite steady.
01:15 Over the past six years, the President of the Law Society, James Marsh, has said that
01:22 police should only be able to have these powers under special circumstances.
01:26 [BLANK_AUDIO]