{"id":37416,"date":"2026-02-14T07:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=37416"},"modified":"2026-02-14T07:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:19:41","slug":"independent-investigation-will-see-law-enforcement-conduct-commission-probe-police-operation-at-town-hall-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/independent-investigation-will-see-law-enforcement-conduct-commission-probe-police-operation-at-town-hall-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent investigation will see Law Enforcement Conduct Commission probe police operation at Town Hall protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lecc.nsw.gov.au\/news\/police-watchdog-to-investigate-police-operation-at-sydney-town-hall-protest-on-9-february-2026\">The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) has confirmed that they will investigate<\/a>&nbsp;the Police Operation at Town Hall on 9 February 2026, including actions by individual officers. The investigation was prompted by a significant number of complaints made to the LECC by community members.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Greens MP and spokesperson for Justice Sue Higginson said:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the first important step forward for transparency after the awful experience that thousands in our community had at the hands of the NSW Police last Monday,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m relieved that the LECC have decided to take this course of action, despite the Premier saying yesterday in Parliament that he did not support an independent investigation into police actions,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are lucky in NSW that we have a strong police oversight body in the LECC, and I am very grateful that they have authority to act on the reports that they have received,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis investigation will have the opportunity for hearings, and will result in a public report made to Parliament. This is what the community needs, and it\u2019s what the Police need too. It is in no one\u2019s interest to have police acting with impunity, it leads to violence, and Labor leaders Premier Chris Minns and Police Minister Yasmin Catley should cooperate fully with this investigation,\u201d Ms Higginson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) has confirmed that they will investigate&nbsp;the Police Operation at Town Hall on 9 February 2026, including actions by individual officers. The investigation was prompted by a significant number of complaints made to the LECC by community members. Greens MP and spokesperson for Justice Sue Higginson said: \u201cThis is the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/independent-investigation-will-see-law-enforcement-conduct-commission-probe-police-operation-at-town-hall-protest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Independent investigation will see Law Enforcement Conduct Commission probe police operation at Town Hall protest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37417,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37416\/revisions\/37417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}