Submission – Dr Tamar Hopkins: “Monitoring Racial Profiling – Introducing a Scheme to Prevent Unlawful Stop and Searches by Victoria Police: A Report of the Police Stop Data Working Group”

Dr Tamar Hopkins has been working in the area of police accountability and racism since 2005. She was the founding lawyer of the Police Accountability Project at Flemington & Kensington Community Legal Centre in Melbourne Australia in 2009.

This submission is a report by the Police Stop Data Working Group. Dr Hopkins was the primary researcher and author of the report, which examines eight key practical issues involved in the implementation of a racial profiling data collection scheme in Victoria, Australia and makes 20 recommendations.