NSW Police Force ordered to apologise for 'vilifying' Arabs in counter-terror exercise

A tribunal has found that NSW Police racially vilified Palestinians and Arabs by allowing officers acting as offenders to wear headscarves in a counter-terror exercise.

Police been ordered to apologise for dressing in headscarves during the drill. Source: NSW Police Force

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Published 3 May 2019 5:46am

Updated 3 May 2019 11:42am

By Saleem Al-Fahad

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NSW Police Force has been ordered to apologise for dressing two officers, who were pretending to be terrorists during a training exercise, in headscarves because it "racially vilified Palestinians and Arabs".

The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Thursday found it was unreasonable and unnecessary for the force to use the scarves during the drill at Sydney's Central station in October 2017.