It was documented here a while back...

the "police" in Austrailia are PMC (aka mercenary companies) who bought "police" patches and are hired by the government to fill in the missing ranks. Being what they are, combat-oriented mercenaries who AT BEST are honorable people who can only see every problem is a "Tango" to take down, to criminals so fucking murderously psycho governments engaged in active wars dishonorably discharged them, to the scraping of 3rd world slums who demonstrated above average ability to kill... They are mercenaries. If you need to run a military offensive where the goal is to attack and kill, they are amazing. But to have them to civilian police work? I'm pretty sure just hanging badges around the necks actual bears and sending their man-eating furry asses out among the public would be an improvement over mercenaries.

Which is the future the liberals want.

Go look up the tabletop role playing game Shadowrun, and the 1990's video game Deus Ex Machina. Both envisioned a future where corporations bent over failing governments, the authorities use a virus they created to enact draconian systems, and the streets were patrolled by "private security" who had the legal right to kill anybody for anything, with what few state police officers left powerless to stop them. And this shit was from 1990's. The liberals have been dreaming of this world you see unfolding their entire lives.

Unfortunately Liberty itself is not a concept I have encountered much in the UK or former Prussian states. The State itself is genuinely just accepted for the most part - far more than here in the United States. It's actually pretty wild.