At the recent Sydney Mardi Gras Festival 2023 AGM, members overwhelmingly voted to abandon an agreement with NSW Police regarding police presence at future parades.
The Police Accord, established in 2014, is a memorandum of understanding with NSW Police that allows Mardi Gras to have input into the planning for a legally required police presence at each festival event.
The accord was established after an investigation into the “brutal” arrest of 18-year-old partygoer Jamie Jackson Reed in 2013, who was handcuffed and slammed to the ground by former constable Leon Mixios. The officer was later found by an investigation to have used “unreasonable force” under Section 181D of the Police Act.
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