Intervention incidents not heavy handed: police
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The Northern Territory Police Association has rejected criticism that officers have been heavy handed in two recent incidents.
Town camp residents in Alice Springs have lodged a formal complaint over a police raid at the Kunoth town camp last week.
And the family of a Territory man who killed himself two months ago after escaping from police custody has blamed the federal intervention for his death.
The Police Association's president Vince Kelly has defended the actions of police, and says their approach hasn't changed under the federal intervention.
"The Northern Territory police are required to enforce the law.
"We try and do that in an even handed manner.
"We try and take cultural sensitivities into consideration.
"However, in some circumstances, we simply have to act.
"And to suggest that police officers can simply ignore sexual offences or offences involving firearms is completely ridiculous."
