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‘Anywhere, anytime’: Victoria police and PSOs to get random stop and search powers after Labor backflip

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What happened

Premier Ben Carroll adopts Coalition’s stance on Jack’s Law, which gives police and PSOs power to randomly search people for knives with metal detectors The Victorian premier has made another policy backflip, announcing a re-elected Labor government…

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  • Reported by The Guardian and published Wed, 16 Sep 2026 05:03:31 UTC.

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