Special Guest: Ivan Ray - Inspector (Retired), Victoria Police

Ivan Ray is the Chief Executive Officer of the Community Advocacy Alliance and a retired Inspector from Victoria Police. He leads an organisation that fights for the restoration of community policing and is excited at the direction the new Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police is charting – a return to a more friendly and helpful police ‘service’.

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The Community Advocacy Alliance: www.caainc.org.au

The CAA’s petition for Recall Elections:

https://www.change.org/p/petition-to-the-legislative-council-of-victoria-give-democracy-back-to-the-people-with-recall-elections

Follow the CAA: https://www.facebook.com/CAAgroup

To donate to the CAA in their efforts to restore community-based policing such as their schools programs: https://caainc.org.au/how-to-become-a-donor/

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Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/mFzIEdB_Pfo

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5:15 The role of policing

7:45 VicPol members not happy with the bureaucracy

11:30 Changing of the old guard at VicPol

14:00 Skills vs Values

15:40 Community policing

19:20 Policing is a service

21:40 The New York broken window theory

28:00 Commissioner Patton relaunching schools programs

30:28 Who police really are

38:15 Police upset having to go against own values

41:00 African crime gangs weren't being arrested

49:50 The concentration of executive power

52:15 Inconsistent restrictions and true leadership

54:27 Police are looking the other way

56:33 Ivan’s career after leaving VicPol

1:09:29 The AFP have no policing experience

1:15:00 A better way to measure policing success

1:21:30 The challenge Commissioner Patton faces in changing VicPol culture

1:26:00 Ivan’s predictions for VicPol

1:27:45 Government is the problem, not VicPol

1:29:20 The Premier and CHO aren't trained in disaster management

1:31:40 the future of the Community Advocacy Alliance