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This is the same policing culture that Amendment 470 seeks to regulate more tightly, because the risks of exploitation, manipulation and institutional indifference multiply when the state confers immunity in advance of the act. The amendment would provide a principled and proportionate response: a defence-based model that preserves operational capacity while ensuring that authorisation, necessity and proportionality can be tested if concerns later arise. It would strengthen accountability in a policing landscape where victims are ignored rather than protected and where groups such as Police Spies Out of Lives have had to shoulder the burden of uncovering and documenting abuses that should never have occurred.