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Last Update: Friday, January 20, 2006. 4:34pm (AEDT)

Riot investigation needs more police: Opposition

The New South Wales Opposition is calling for an extra 300 police to investigate reprisal attacks following the Cronulla riots in south Sydney.

The head of the strike force investigating Sydney's racial violence has been removed from the position and returned to his local area command after police took more than a month to release footage of a reprisal attack at Cronulla.

Opposition Leader Peter Debnam says other video and audio tapes should be released and the number of police investigating revenge attacks boosted.

"What the Government has typically done again today is create a scapegoat," he said.

"We're interested in the real issue and the real issue is simply, is the Government going to put 323 police into investigating these hoods, these thugs, and getting them locked up?"



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