ALL CAA LIBRARY POSTS
A collection of all CAA library posts
ENDEMIC CORRUPTION
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GENERAL ARTICLES
PTSD ARTICLES
POLICING BY THE NUMBERS
25th September 2023 It is not the number of Police that makes a difference, but how you use them; that is the key. Victoria Police are allegedly understaffed, which means that radical and surgical work must be undertaken to maintain Law and Order, something the...
G-TAG AND THE PRIVACY DEBATE
17th of September 2023 Autonomous vehicles and connected vehicles are on the horizon. That technology will have the capacity to take control of vehicles away from drivers. Currently in the advanced stage of trials, which seem rather benign; nevertheless, the impact of...
The infallibility of misguided ideology.
11th September 2023 Youth crime is the victim of ideology that is so blinkered as to fail to achieve its original goal. In the late 1990’s to 2012 a formidable politician, Robert Hulls, championed a concept called Restorative Justice. A concept, ironically given its...
THE G-TAG that– CAN SAVE LIVES
8th September 2023 Key Takeouts:- Save Lives- De-weaponise the motor car, stolen or not. Rapidly locate victims- Any criminality involving the use of a vehicle can be tracked in real time, and victims can be recovered. Reduce crime – By increasing...
DRUGS AND ALCOHOL ABUSE – A MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
Having exposed the flaws in the current approach to Drugs and public intoxication https://caainc.org.au/how-could-we-be-so-wrong/ the CAA has applied its depth of experience to develop workable and practical solutions. The proposed solutions aim to strike a pragmatic...
CAA Appoints a Patron
Community Advocacy Alliance Inc. (CAA) has appointed Mr Francis Galbally as their Patron. The Chairman and Directors of the CAA Board warmly welcome Francis to the CAA. Mr Galbally was a partner in the law firm Galbally & O'Bryan until switching to the...
HOW COULD WE BE SO WRONG?
18th August 2023 The current strategies being developed, and some implemented to deal with two of the social blights of our society, Drug and alcohol abuse, have and continue to fail, causing substantial disquiet, and a danger to the rest of the law-abiding citizenry....
SEPARATION OF POWERS – THE ELEPHANT IN THE CORNER
15th August 2023 There can be no argument that Victoria is a standout State in Australia for all the wrong reasons, but why? In trying to identify why things in this State have deteriorated so dramatically in recent years, it is notable that the Separation of Powers...
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE
30,223 ACTS OF FAMILY VIOLENCE IN VICTORIA 30,233 acts of Violence perpetrated on women by their ex-partners. (HS 9/08/23), and that is only the year to March. Apart from the suffering of victims, that statistic equates to a minimum of 241,865 police hours used by...
BAD POLICY IS ACTUALLY THE CRIME
8th Augist 2023 BAD POLICY IS ACTUALLY THE CRIME Published Herald Sun - August 8, 2023. Francis Galbally – Lawyer - Buisnessman - CAA Patron If you speak to former senior police officers, they will tell you they fear an outbreak similar to the drug wars of Mokbel,...
POLICE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT – PART OF THE PROBLEM?
28th March 2021 Not surprisingly, there has been some disquiet concerning the assertions we have and will continue to make in this series. Therefore, it is appropriate that we reiterate that we do not challenge the affliction suffered by many called PTSD, nor do we...
PTSD or OSD – WHO WINS?
22nd March 2021 The CAA has thought hard and long before venturing into this part of the conundrum that might explain and perhaps help reduce the impact of the devastating psychological disorders befalling Police members. Our concern is that the label Post Traumatic...
FOUR DEATHS IN A WEEK-ROAD TOLL-NO POLICE TOLL
23rd of August 2019 The news of four deaths in a week is by any stretch a pandemic of epic proportions, and it is very unlikely that this will be the end of it, it could get much worse. Today there have been apprehensions expressed echoing what concerns the CAA, that...
It is a big deal
Depression, Anxiety These are both real I speak from experience It is a big deal. In a dark place No way I can see This is not how Things should now be Fearing to leave My one only space Tears in my eyes No smile on my face. Not ready to talk The...
Victoria Police demand respect
31st May 2019 Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton in his article, ‘Victoria Police demand respect,’ invited readers of the Herald Sun 31/5/19 to; Ask any old school copper if they’ve seen the levels of respect for police change over the years, and their answer will not...
PTSD Case study 3845
26th April 2019 It would not be hard to conclude that the horror stories that the Community Advocacy Alliance (CAA) have reported to date would lead readers to believe that these nightmares were confined to the “Other Ranks”, that is below Officer rank but alas for...
Project Police PTSD- Case study 3843
Editor’s note:3843 has not (yet?) been formally diagnosed with PTSD, but the circumstances of this case are parallel to many who have been. How would you feel if all of a sudden you found that there had been a major exposé on National prime time television alleging...
Project Police PTSD – Case study 3842
4th April 2019 This case starts off fairly benignly with a respected country Detective Sergeant with substantial service including a period in the Homicide Squad and an unblemished record of service in a large provincial Victorian town. 3842 was responsible for...
Tas govt introduces PTSD compo change
22nd March 2019 The Tasmanian government has introduced a bill aiming to make it easier for emergency workers to access post-traumatic stress disorder compensation. Emergency workers in Tasmania will have better access to post-traumatic stress disorder compensation...
Project PTSD – Case study 3840
16th March 2019 Editor’s note: This is the first published story of this project and we chose to start the numbering system of case studies from Lawyer X case numbering, 3838 because like that issue, this has a management problem (Management Matrix) at its core. We...
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