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Aboriginal Deaths In Custody Case Study

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The following essay will aim to address several issues in regards to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC). The first issue of focus will identify how the RCIADIC links policies and practices of colonisation to Aboriginal people’s deaths in custody. Such policies and practices includes segregation, protection and assimilation. This will be followed by identifying how the RCIADIC recommends that relations between First Australians and police could be improved before discussing one such recommendations effectiveness of implementation in New South Wales.
Segregation, protection and assimilation are all policies that have been linked to Aboriginal people’s deaths while in custody. Simply defined segregation means to …show more content…

Here, the Aboriginal Protection Act 1869 (VIC) was made to establish an inclusive scheme of control over the lives of First Australians (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2014). New South Wales’ equivalent to this was the Aborigines Protection Act 1909 (NSW) which was to provide protection and care of Aboriginal People but rather legislated for the control of their lives. The policies of assimilation directly related to and relied on segregation and protectionism policies. This policy reflected the views of all governmental bodies of Australia, in that they thought it necessary that Aboriginal people were to eventually exercise the equivalent method of living as non-Indigenous Australians and to live as members of a sole community appreciating the same rights and freedoms, accept the same responsibilities, observing similar duties and be predisposed to the same loyalties, hopes and …show more content…

To begin with, Indigenous Liaison Officers aim to promote a consciousness of the roles that NSW police have within Aboriginal Communities. To ensure communication between Aboriginal People and the NSW Police is not hindered in some way, the Liaison Officers will identify such obstacles and find ways to prevent their occurrence. While doing this the Liaison Officers maintain a fostered mutual understanding between First Nation People and the Police. A key factor in the success of the Liaison Officer initiative is that the Officers apply encouraging attitudes and demonstrate that they can adapt with their use of spoken and body language when in contact with different people. This allows the Officers to encourage Aboriginal people to communicate to Police any matter related to crime within the Aboriginal community. In addition to this the Officers inspire Aboriginal communities to work with Police in evolving plans that overcome Aboriginal Peoples disadvantage as it relates to a policing setting (NSW Police Force, 2007, p. 2). Therefore the implementation of Indigenous Liaison Officers has been effective as it improves relations between the NSW Police and Indigenous

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