Experts call on WA Police to review its procedures for using dogs in the line of duty, after a report reveals more than 60 per cent of canine deployments target Indigenous people.
WA Police and the government have said they were comfortable the right decisions were made on the night.
"On this evening, there were 10 calls to the police and there was a series of fairly serious incidents including aggravated burglaries."It was appropriate the dog was deployed to the incident, and they're the sorts of incidents we expect a canine unit to attend to.
Premier McGowan denied race had played into the recent incident, and said officers did not know the races of the people they were looking for. But in response to the CCC report, WA Police said the over-representation in police dog deployments involving Indigenous people may be a reflection of the broader over-representation of Indigenous people in the criminal justice system in general.Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that, on average between June and August, 40 per cent of people in WA prisons were Indigenous, despite First Nations people making up only four per cent of the state's population.
But the CCC report noted "ambiguity" in how police dogs are meant to be used, because officers relied on lesson plans from training — rather than defined policies and procedures — to make operational decisions.
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