Australian Police Received One Million Tip-Offs About COVID Rules-Breakers During Pandemic Years: StudyAustralian police received over a million tip-offs during the pandemic years from individuals reporting breaches of public health orders, a new study has revealed.
In 2019 Crime Stoppers, the country’s community program for receiving anonymous information on criminal activity, received 313,000 tip-offs nationally.
In 2020, this number jumped to 416,000 amid the first lockdowns and public health restrictions around the pandemic.
By the end of 2021, this number had spiked to 584,000 with a combination of online and phone tip-offs.
Notable examples include a tip-off in June 2021 about former Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, who was seen not wearing a mask while in a petrol station. While just a month later, police received 6,000 tip-offs about a 3000-strong protest against lockdowns in Sydney CBD....
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