Project Marrella (October 2009)

Published: October 01, 2009

The Police Integrity Commission has released a Research and Issues Paper titled Project Marrella: Is misconduct by NSW police officers affected by the number of students in a training intake at the NSW Police College? Complaints were used as a proxy for misconduct and police officers' first two years of service was examined. The results showed that police officers who were trained in large intakes were not more likely to be the subject of complaints in their first 2 years of service than those trained in smaller intakes. The perception that students trained in large intakes are more likely to engage in misconduct once they become police officers than those trained in smaller intakes is therefore not valid for NSW police officers when complaints are used as a proxy for misconduct.

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