This news originally appeared on The Age on 24 February 2022.

Link: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/they-never-had-the-power-to-be-police-defence-lawyers-scramble-to-identify-cases-20220224-p59zaq.html

Excerpt:

Defence lawyers are scrambling to identify potentially thousands of cases involving Victorian police, who never had the power to act as officers, following an error that the government says will be fixed with retrospective legislation.