www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15369994-29277,00.html


Police bug public phone

May 22, 2005
From: AAP


NEW South Wales Police have defended bugging a public telephone in Sydney during a drug investigation.
Dozens of innocent conversations from the phone in Coogee, in Sydney's eastern suburbs, were recorded over a month by the NSW Crime Commission.

The commission was investigating a conspiracy to import millions of dollars worth of cocaine, News Limited papers today reported.

Responding to privacy concerns raised in the reports, acting Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione today defended the practice.

Mr Scipione said judicial authorities permitted bugging operations under controls.

"There are a number of agencies that keep tabs on what we are doing," Mr Scipione said.

"There is enormous oversight.

"We make an application and the (judicial) authorities actually issue the warrant."

It would happen here too, during an investigation.

governments are your friends

did they have a warrant?

"We're from the government and we're here to help."

There is no bill of rights in Commonwealth countries, nor Constitutional protections.Wonder why the ACLU (kommie faggot choadhuffers union) isn't going after this as they seem to think everything happening in the world is in their domain and ...somehow,,,even foreign terrorists are U.S.Citizens.  

There may not be a bill of rights, but there are rights provided by centuries of common law and equity rulings which amount to about the same thing.

They're just not enumerated in an easy-to-read fashion that can be printed out on one page to make it easy for armchair lawyers!

NTM

Quoted: They're just not enumerated in an easy-to-read fashion that can be printed out on one page to make it easy for armchair lawyers! NTM

You mean like the Magna Carta? ( Which would apply in OZ )

* crossing Australia off vacation list *