Police officer admits to 'guesstimating' quantity of drugs found on festival patrons

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A NSW police officer is accused of sloppy work in an inquiry after she mistakenly inflated the quantity of drugs found on a reveller at Splendour in the Grass last year by nearly eight times.

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A police officer who inflated the quantity of drugs found on a festival patron by nearly eight times was"muddled up" and made a mistake, an inquiry has heard.

She was today accused of"sloppy work" at the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission , which is investigating whether police engaged in"serious misconduct" by strip searching a 16-year-old girl at last year's Splendour in the Grass festival.Today, it heard police errors could follow offenders for the rest of their lifeThe officer was involved in the festival's high-profile policing operation near Byron Bay in July 2018, including the strip searching of patrons.

But when she later prepared a statement of facts — which is used when an accused person faces court and is placed before a magistrate — the amount changed to 3.18 grams.

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The real problem here is that there are still drugs on patrons of music festivals

And this is why young people don’t trust the police anymore

Are they filmed ? Cos then we have the real story .... EVIL ! My opinion only

A society that allows strip searches of the public who are not convicted criminals Is a profoundly sick society .

I guesstimate that all cops are corrupt dogs.

Prohibition corrupts all institutions who play with it.

I hear 'festival patrons' and my sympathy evaporates.

as opposed to people taking drugs not knowing what it contained and taking it could kill them?

So, they didn’t include what they resold?

Like we can ‘guesstimate’ level of honesty in Police Forces, I reckon.

Coppers love illegal drugs too, after all they're only human, right?

I bet you'll find this is not a one off

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