{
  "id": 7712757,
  "title": "‘Anywhere, anytime’: Victoria police and PSOs to get random stop and search powers after Labor backflip",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/anywhere-anytime-victoria-police-and-psos-to-get-random-stop-and",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-16T05:03:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian Australia",
    "slug": "the-guardian-australia",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/16/victoria-police-pso-stop-and-search-powers-jacks-law-labor-backflip"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Premier Ben Carroll adopts Coalition’s stance on Jack’s Law, which gives police and PSOs power to randomly search people for knives with metal detectors The Victorian premier has made another policy backflip, announcing a re-elected Labor government would give police and protective services officers the power to stop and search people for knives using handheld metal detectors – despite experts…",
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        "outlet": "The Guardian",
        "title": "‘Anywhere, anytime’: Victoria police and PSOs to get random stop and search powers after Labor backflip",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/anywhere-anytime-victoria-police-and-psos-to-get-random-stop-and-7715677",
        "published": "2026-09-16T05:03:31.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}