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”

Summary:

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.

Date: 17 May 2023