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Crime Stoppers Queensland was established in 1989. [11] In August 2013, the Queensland Police Service launched an online crime map to provide crime data to the public. [12] In October 2013, the Newman government led an unprecedented crackdown on outlaw motorcycle clubs. [13] In March 2023, Queensland police were given a substantial rise in powers.
This Act provides for an administrative scheme to regulate the possession, use and trade of various weapons including firearms, martial arts weapons, particular knives, body armour and crossbows. The Act is administered by the Weapons Licensing Branch of the Queensland Police Service. [1]
In the Strathfield massacre in New South Wales, 1991, two were killed with a knife, and five more with a firearm. Tasmania passed a law in 1991 for firearm purchasers to obtain a licence, though enforcement was light. Firearm laws in Tasmania and Queensland remained relatively relaxed for longarms.
Knife legislation is defined as the body of statutory law or case law promulgated or enacted by a government or other governing jurisdiction that prohibits, criminalizes, or restricts the otherwise legal manufacture, importation, sale, transfer, possession, transport, or use of knives.
States of Jersey Police says 6% of knife crime since 2020 has taken place in schools.
SYDNEY (Reuters) -The man who fatally stabbed six people in Sydney had mental health issues in the past and there is no indication ideology was a motive in the attack in one of the city's busiest ...
Law has an overarching doctrine of reasonableness. It is derived from a hypothetical reasonable person, a standard by which a law is explained to a jury. The reasonable person, and reasonableness itself, extends to the concept of reasonable and probable grounds as a justification for the exercise of power (or discretion).
AKTI, which favors abolishing knife restrictions across the country, maintains a guide to which states do and don't restrict automatic knives, as well as a broader directory of state knife laws ...