Under what grounds are the police allowed to stalk someone without communicating
Dear Victoria Police,
Why is it OK for the police to stalk someone in a way that is intimidating so that the individual notices, using the airwing, different aircraft services, light planes, police cars, police vans, policeman on foot? why is it OK for them to track an individual's phone, follow them in suburban trains, follow them all over Melbourne and yet not communicate with them directly as to what the problem is? Why is it that when confronted at a police station and asked has this individual done a crime or is this individual under investigation the answer is no and no yet that individual is still stalked by the Victoria Police? All this has happened over a multi year Time span. Why has this individual de facto lost citizenship rights? Because at the moment the police are implying that this individual should not live where they are living. How is the individual to know where they can live free of being stalked by the police? Why is this individual's phone being tracked? the cost of this stalking campaign over a multi year timespan must be in the millions. how is this cost being hidden from the public? creative accounting? This is a form of terror. why is it OK for the police to engage in terrorism? I thought terrorism was banned under international law.
Yours faithfully,
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