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Jack’s Law, which allows police to use metal detector ‘wands’ to search people for knives, will become permanent across Queensland early next year, the state government announced yesterday.Jack’s Law – named after 17-year-old Jack Beasley who was fatally stabbed on the Gold Coast in 2019 – empowers police officers to use handheld metal detectors to search members of the public for knives without a warrant in certain areas.
“We must take a zero-tolerance approach to knife crime and making Jack’s Law permanent just makes sense,” he said.“We will introduce the legislation as part of the second tranche of the ‘Making Queensland Safer Laws’ next year.“Jack’s parents, Brett and Belinda Beasley, are incredible Queenslanders who have fought in the face of heartache to make these laws permanent and we will deliver on the promise we made to them and to Queenslanders.
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