Victoria's Police Association says the state's decriminalisation of public drunkenness, which comes into effect on Melbourne Cup Day, will leave officers powerless to act in some situations.
Victorian police fear they will not have sufficient powers to act when the state's public drunkenness laws are lifted on Melbourne Cup Day.The Victoria Police Association says the change in approach leaves officers without power to actGovernment documents have revealed the laws will be lifted on November 7 this year, meaning public drunkenness will no longer be an offence.after the inquest into the death of Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day in 2017.
There will also be a general services response in metropolitan Melbourne, which is not specifically focused on the Aboriginal community. "So what our members in regional Victoria will do post-November when they encounter public intoxication, as they indeed do most days, is entirely unclear to us."
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