Policing biosecurity: police enforcement of special measures in New South Wales and Victoria during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dealing with the ‘Crimmigrant Other’ in the Face of a Global Public Health Threat: A Snapshot of Deportation during COVID-19 in Australia and New Zealand

“…In many Australian states, not complying with COVID-19 public health regulations became a criminal offence (Boon-Kuo et al 2020). Therefore, crimmigration-related repercussions occurred: a French national was deported under s501 for organising a party of over 1000 people which did not comply with COVID-19 regulations (Lamb et al 2021).…”

“…However, it appears as though it was inevitablewith the Australian government continuing to spend AUD 23 m on the Christmas Island facility in 2019 when it was empty (Burgess 2019). In addition, critics oppose the government's COVID-19 framing-stating that it was actually reopened to stifle public protests regarding detention (which were criminalised during COVID-19), and remove detainees from public view (Blakkarlay 2020;Boon-Kuo et al 2020).…”

Critical workers? Private security, public perceptions and the Covid-19 pandemic

“…The first and most prominent theme relates to police enforcement of pandemic-related laws and regulations (such as lockdown restrictions) and public perceptions of and compliance with this enforcement (see Biswas and Sultana 2020 ; Boon-Kuo et al 2021 ; Farrow 2020 ; Grace 2020 ; Jankovic and Cvetkovic 2020 ; Jiang and Xie 2020 ; Jones 2020 ; Ka-Ki Ho et al 2020 ; Luong 2020 ; Perry and Jonathan-Zamir 2020 ; Reicher and Stott 2020 ; Deckert et al 2021 ; McCarthy et al 2021 ; Mazerolle and Ransley 2021 ; Sargeant et al 2021 ; Scalia 2021 ; Terpstra et al 2021 ; Waseem 2021 ). The second theme concerns the police response to more established crimes and vulnerabilities within the context of the pandemic, such as domestic violence (Nix and Richards 2021 ; Walklate et al 2021 ; Workman et al 2021 ), mental health (Lersch 2020 ), cybercrime (Horgan et al 2021 ) and the production, supply and consumption of illicit drugs (Marks et al 2020 ; Trappen and McLean 2021 ).…”

COVID Police: Role of Ajman Police During Initial Lockdown

“…This experience has given a new paradigm for police work that has gone beyond the traditional role of the police to shift police in most parts of the world during lockdown to new roles directed toward the public health goal of preventing infection. To emerge a new concept and term called “COVID-19 Police” (Boon-Kuo et al, 2020 ; Sheptycki, 2020 ), COVID-19 is also creating a set of unexpected and unprecedented challenges for police departments around the world (Luong, 2020 ; Zoha, 2021 ).…”