A NEW WORD HAS ENTERED OUR DICTIONARIES. A ‘Mallard!’
It represents the best way to describe an entirely original and emerging concept in professional policing in Australia. Some of the previous words used to articulate what a certain police process involved no longer cover the necessary territory. Take for example, a good old fashioned ‘verbal.’ Straightforward concept it is. In the face of an uncooperative confessee, the police confessors simply fashion up a fictional account, typed up in traditional verbiage from the “His eyes were crooked and we knew straight up that he dunnit” school of confessional fabrication and the mark goes down. The courts have always appreciated the traditional school of police stitching because it is a tried and true system that obtains admirable results.