Ambulance and health workers will shoulder the burden of dealing with rowdy drunks as the Victorian Labor government looks set to sideline police officers from handling intoxicated individuals.
The move from the Andrews government comes in response to the death of Indigenous woman Tanya Day in the state of Victoria in Australia.
The Yorta Yorta woman was removed from a train heading to Melbourne on Dec. 5, 2017, she was deemed “unruly” by the ticket inspector and was later removed and arrested by police for public drunkenness.
Day was taken to Castlemaine Police Station where she was supposed to be physically checked every 30 minutes, but this did not occur, according to the Human Rights Law Centre….