Watchdog won’t investigate AFP reliance on flawed technique to prosecute Indonesian boys
Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity says complaint about federal police not about corruption so does not fall within its remit
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Australia’s law enforcement integrity watchdog refused to investigate Australian federal police who relied on a deeply flawed technique to use false dates of birth on sworn legal documents to prosecute Indonesian children as adult people smugglers.
Earlier this year, the Guardian used a trove of internal documents to show how police relied on deeply flawed evidence to alter the dates of birth given to them by Indonesian children found crewing asylum boats in 2009 and 2010.
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