Days after five members of the Bali Nine returned to Australia, a parliamentary inquiry has warned that more oversight is needed for federal police tasked with overseas co-operation.
The Australian Federal Police board that handles international information sharing on sensitive cases should be subject to stronger oversight to make sure Australians aren’t sent to their death overseas, a parliamentary inquiry has warned, just days after the Bali Five’s return.
They said every foreign police agency’s request for information was assessed individually, “with extra scrutiny considered when countries have the death penalty as a judicial punishment”. In a submission to the inquiry, the NSW Civil Liberties Council said the government should “never again assist a foreign government in cases where the death penalty is a possible outcome” and called for stronger laws to stop the AFP sharing information with international partners if it could lead to capital punishment.
“We will only provide assistance where the risk can be appropriately mitigated,” Susie Williamson-de Vries, an assistant secretary at the Attorney-General’s Department, told the inquiry.
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