WA Coroner slams powers to arrest street drinkers after Aboriginal woman dies in jail

By Hannah Barry
Updated April 13 2017 - 1:14pm, first published 1:06pm

The State Coroner has called to abolish the power of WA police officers to detain people arrested for street drinking, following the death of a Broome woman in custody in 2012.

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