{
  "id": 7715677,
  "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",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-16T05:03:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian",
    "slug": "the-guardian",
    "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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  "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 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Victorian premier has made another policy backflip, announcing a re-elected Labor government would give police and protective…",
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        "outlet": "The Guardian Australia",
        "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",
        "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."
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