‘Highly intrusive’: NSW police dump proactive policing of children after watchdog warns it could be unlawful

Law Enforcement Conduct Commission finds the suspect targeting management plan (STMP) has ‘discriminatory effect’ on young people

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The New South Wales police force has rushed to dump a decades-old policy on “highly intrusive” proactive policing of children after a watchdog warned the strategy was potentially unlawful.

The move comes after a five-year investigation by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC), which found the NSW police’s use of the suspect targeting management plan (STMP) was having an “ongoing discriminatory effect” on young people.

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