A WA Police ‘proactive’ operation has involved placing e-scooters outside shopping centres to entice criminals.

Dr Stephen Monterosso, a senior law lecturer at Curtin University, argues this act constitutes entrapment.

“It looks like entrapment to me but the thing is it’s not actually illegal in Australia and these kinds of tactics have been used for donkeys years.”

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