In 1986 the Commission was asked to ‘review offences created by Parts V, VI and VII of the Police Act 1892 (WA) and to report:
(a)
as to whether any of those offences should be abolished; and
(b)
with regard to those offences which should be retained, what changes, if any, including changes to their description and definition, are desirable to make the law more readily understood and more relevant to modern conditions’.
