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A construction worker has accused police officers of knocking him off his bike, assaulting him and calling him a "black c***" while he was riding his bike to work in inner Melbourne.

Mr Penny's lawyer, Jeremy King from Robinson Gill, called for an urgent and independent investigation.

Victoria's corruption watch-dog, IBAC, has cleared Victoria Police of using unreasonable force when they raided an innocent man's home and badly injured him when he resisted arrest. Nic Dimopoulos and his lawyer say they're devastated by the findings and are vowing to pursue civil action against the officers and continue to push the DPP to lay criminal charges.

Victoria's justice system was thrown into one of the biggest legal scandals in its history, when it was revealed that police had been using a criminal defence barrister as an informer against her own clients. The identity of the female criminal defence barrister has been suppressed but tomorrow, the lawyer also known as Informer 3838, is expected to be unmasked.

A man who alleges he was bashed by a police sergeant in the question room of a station in eastern Victoria pleaded guilty to assaulting the same officer a decade earlier, a committal hearing is told.

A Victorian policeman retained his job and rank despite being caught on CCTV assaulting a drunk disability pensioner at Geelong Police Station.

A Victorian parliamentary committee has called for a major overhaul of the state's police oversight system after a 15-month inquiry into how claims of misconduct and corruption are investigated.