Some children aged as young as 14, profiled as potential criminals, were targeted more than 100 times over a single year.
NSW Police have abandoned a secretive blacklist used to target children – some aged as young as 14 and profiled as potential criminals – after the state’s watchdog found that officers engaged in potentially unlawful misconduct.
The commission’s report was the product of a five-year review into the STMP program and concluded that the targeting of children through overt and covert means was an opaque tool which utilised unreasonable and unjust tactics against its targets. The report reveals that in the first six months of the last iteration of the program, 133 children were managed by STMP, with an average age of 16. The youngest in the program was 14 and 48 per cent of children in the program were First Nations. There were 103 children living in metropolitan areas, while 31 were from the regions.
The young person was searched 31 times in the 26 months that he was an STMP target. He was searched twice in one day on four occasions in 2021. The child was found to have a brain injury, but officers continued to target him regardless.
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