The father and husband of two Northern Territory Police officers who were attacked while off duty in Alice Springs says the government must “take the handcuffs off the police” if it wants to get crime under control.
Father and husband of off-duty police officers attacked in Alice Springs says NT government must 'take the handcuffs off police' to deal with youth crime crisis
Two of the officers – a mother and her daughter who had only just graduated the police academy – were taken to hospital after the incident, where they were treated for wounds sustained in the attack., who said the incident was further evidence Alice Springs was “out of control”, describing the outback city as a “horrid war zone”.
“It really is time that we take the handcuffs off the police and put them on the offenders,” he said. “And the other thing is that for whatever reason they choose not to train their police on how to deal with juveniles. Chris said at the core of the problem was the way the principle of Doli Incapax has been applied in the NT – a legal principle that translates to “incapable of evil”, which governs whether juvenile offenders can be held criminally responsible.
“ if a police officer was standing right next to you, would you have done that? If the answer is ‘No’ then you know that you're on your way to determine that the child has the requisite capacity to know that what they were doing is wrong.”
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