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Chris Cahill: Police Association President on the need for search powers in the gang crackdown

Published: July 29, 2024, 7:47 p.m.

Police say they need search powers to crack down on gang associates and their firearms.\xa0

New proposed Firearm Prohibition Order laws would ban people committing lower level offences from holding a firearms licence, and allow warrantless police searches of suspects.\xa0

The Justice Select Committee's asking the Government to soften some changes, concerned it would give police too much power.\xa0

Police Association President Chris Cahill told Mike Hosking it's better than what they had.\xa0

He says the law is toothless without any form of search powers.\xa0

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