‘Unconscious racism’ behind NSW police officer’s decision not to call ambulance for Indigenous prisoner, watchdog finds | New South Wales

The police observer, a new Southern Wales police officer, an indigenous man’s self -harm in a prison cell after the decision to call an ambulance in a prison cell, “unconscious racism” was directed by the decision to call.

The law enforcement behavior commission (Lecc) published its report on the incident on Monday. He found that the senior police officer, a custody manager responsible for prisoner, was dealing with “serious abuse ..

In the report, he found that the civil servant was directed by “unconscious racism, because he acted as if he had deliberately acting to the indigenous man instead of symptomatic mental health disorder.

“Achorijin was naturally suspicious of the claim that a person was a mental health disorder. [He] It is thought that most of the people of Achorijin, whom he encountered as a police officer, to produce the deterioration of most of his people. ”

“This is an demonstration that unconscious racism can cause the police to decide.”

The Commission did not specify where or when the incident took place, but he said it was in a regional town with a “population of an important Aboriginal”.

The report said the police knew that the man, known as CAE, was a serious mental health status and a story of self -harm in custody.

That day, the CCTV images showed that Cae was hit by self and repeatedly damaged it. In his Lecc report, he said he had visible head injuries.

At that time, four officers were in office, and he was found to be guilty of serious abuse, including the civil servant. He was the most senior officer and was strong for 16 years. He had worked in a certain community for four years.

The guard reported that the voice of CAE, who hit his head, was so high that the police station can be heard in other parts of the police station. Nevertheless, the officer, known as the EAC1, has made very little attempt to stop this ”.

The sound led to the civil servants in charge of entering the custody room to see what happened. In the report, these civil servants suggested that the custody manager to call an ambulance, but decided not to do.

In the report, “Officer EAC1’s decision not to call an ambulance, CAE’nin correction, not the custody of the hospital to be taken to the hospital ‘was impressed by the fact that he thought’ he said.

“Officer EAC1’s view was that the people of Achorijin in the regional city community often try to manipulate the system in this way.”

Although Cae was a great visible lump in his head, the EAC1 was transferred to a city police station behind a police vehicle cage and lasted more than an hour.

“CAE was hitting his head for shaking the vehicle while traveling at 110km/s along the road of the vehicle,” the report said.

Anina Johnson, the commissioner of the police guard, said: “The views and actions of the custody manager do not match the strategic standards determined in the Aboriginal aspects of the Achorijin, in which power is committed to calling racism, discrimination and prejudice.”

The report followed two investigations by the Mantus and Pamir operation operation, which found that observation managers could not fulfill their duties while managing the detained people.

The latest report made only an official proposal. The Commission proposed to be changed in order to neglect or reject a legal order within 12 months of the occurrence of the alleged crime. This is now six months.

He did not propose changes in the mental health and cultural awareness education of the force of the force, but face -to -face training should be considered.

Although the Commission has trained EAC1 on appropriate responses, it has found that it has a limited memory of education in two online training modules.

The guard said he was trying to contact CAE for an investigation, but failed. “Unfortunately, this report was prepared without CAE’s voice.”