Lawyer and researcher Tamar Hopkins led a report by Australian academics exploring world's-best-practice for monitoring and preventing racial profiling by police.
Ms Hopkins met representatives from Victoria Police to reinforce her report's key recommendation for "robust racial profiling monitoring, capable of capturing information relevant to demographics, outcomes and reasons for police intervention."
She says she was encouraged to directly approach the Commissioner of Victoria Police with the findings.
Her co-author, sociologist Dr Clare Land, says it's impossible to improve the current less-than-perfect situation without collecting relevant data.
Ms Hopkins says they found Australian authorities lagging significantly behind their international counterparts.
Victoria Police has declined to be interviewed on the issue, but released a statement saying it has "zero tolerance" for racial profiling, and that members are trained to police in response to a person's behaviour, not the colour of their skin.
