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Queensland Police dismissed thousands of misconduct complaints, including alleged domestic violence · The Slippery Slope

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  OK, just quickly, I want to go through First off, discuss the,
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  the episode that I put out just the other day talking about how
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  Queensland Police Service has been accused of blocking,
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  blocking a release, blocking the release of a report, a damaging
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  report about their service delivery programme.
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  And this is according to the internal email.
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  So I did that, did that podcast, that episode the other day,
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  Friday evening. I noticed it was really late in
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  the evening. I noticed that this story came
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  out and it was at the time, it struck me as a little, a little
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  strange, I thought because, you know, generally you see things
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  come out and well, I, I don't know, I just thought it was, it
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  came through on my news feed. And now according to the ABC,
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  their website, it was brought out released on Wednesday at
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  5:40 AM. This was the only, the ABC was
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  the only one that I'd noticed had run with this particular
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  story. You know, Queensland Police
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  Service, while under the watchful eye of Katarina
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  Carroll, blew through $25.9 million, twenty 5.9 million of
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  trying to trying to implement the service delivery programme.
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  So you get 25.9 million in and then you decide it's not
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  working, pull the plug. I did.
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  I think it's really strange to me ABC are the only ones that
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  that publish this story. It goes out 5:40 AM apparently
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  on Wednesday. I only saw it come through my
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  news feed and you know, I'm, I'm nobody, but I just it came
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  through on my news feed really late that night, really late
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  that, that night, which at the time I thought it's a bit
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  strange to get a story, which I think is fairly important.
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  And it only comes up, I think it was like 11:45, you know,
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  midnight, almost midnight on the Friday night the night before
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  the election. Believe it was.
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  So I see this come up, but OK, it seemed to be strange.
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  But you know, I love a good love a good story about the police,
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  the police being inept. Well, when I said police being
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  inept, I'm talking about the, the hierarchy commissioners, you
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  know, all that stuff. So anyway, 24.9 million, nothing
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  to show for it the next day. Usually with these kinds of
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  stories, other other outlets pick up on it.
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  They're talking about it. This is a lot of money for them
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  to blow through and no one has held accountable.
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  And that's really what I, what I took out of that whole article
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  when I was reading, I thought, isn't it strange that no one has
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  come out and said, well, someone's got an answer for
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  this. Where's the where did the money
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  go? What did you spend it on?
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  You just, you've told us you spent all this public money,
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  who's held accountable for wasting it?
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  It's 25925 point 9 million. Especially when there's a couple
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  of comments, one in particular talking about how they're still
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  in a, a legal fight. I don't want to talk about it,
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  but you know, in a legal fight with QPS and the Queensland
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  Police Service are looking at taking them for legal costs as
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  well. There I think it's six of them
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  are going for Q cat. I think it's all tied in with
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  all tied in with the mandate. So legal, legal costs.
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  QPS want the legal costs them to pay legal costs.
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  OK, No one's saying anything about the 25.9 million.
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  And I thought, I was thinking about this, the whole, the whole
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  story. And I thought, isn't it strange
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  that I only saw this story comes out late that evening, the next
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  day, no one else had run with this story at all.
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  It hadn't been republished by anyone else.
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  No one's talking about it. It's just and and it was gone.
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  The story. I've looked it up, trying to
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  find where it is. It's still the ABC looks like
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  the only ones that have spoken about it, they've put out one
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  article about it. And I thought, well, isn't this
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  very strange That's, you know, QPS always talk about being open
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  and transparent. And yet maybe it's just my
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  overly suspicious mind, but I'd, I'd be willing to bet that they
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  are behind this story getting no traction, that there was a
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  reason why it was put out so close to the upcoming election.
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  Because hey, all of our, all of our media here in Queensland.
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  So we're so wrapped up in the election and what was going on,
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  you know, no one really want to get into the drudgery of
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  Katarina Carroll and her ineptitude.
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  So I think this is what QPS were looking for.
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  They were looking basically to bury the story and everyone is
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  just too focused on on the upcoming election.
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  And now we have the now we have the LNP.
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  So our Conservative government, and we're, if just in case
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  you're not from Australia, yeah, I think a Conservative
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  government, our conservative is not, it's not like American
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  Conservative government. Our conservative is more about,
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  it's more about being fiscally, financially conservative more
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  than anything else anyway. So, but our Labour government,
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  they lost the election because they just for some reason, it
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  just did not dawn on them that maybe, you know, inflation is
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  just going through the roof and maybe a government shouldn't
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  just be spending like a like a drunken sailor, just just
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  ridiculous. But Labour's always been like
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  that. They always love to spend the
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  public purse. So yeah, Anyway, so just dawned
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  on me. That's is it.
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  Well, I think it's suspicious that, you know, they're this
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  story of I think misspending, misusing public money, no one
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  being held accountable for it. Katarina was just able to, you
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  know, she didn't even have to finish out her contract.
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  She pulled the pin several months early.
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  She's just ridden off into the sunset, 25.9 million blown.
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  No one's held accountable. But yet some other other
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  officers who are fighting with Queensland police, going through
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  Q cat and Queensland police are riding them, are looking for the
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  money off them. It just blows your mind, blows
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  your mind. They have one standard for
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  themselves. They don't want to be held
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  accountable. They don't want to be held
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  accountable for anything. I'm talking about the hierarchy,
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  talking about the, you know, the inspectors up all the way up to
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  the commissioners, all the the leadership.
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  They don't want to be held accountable, but they sure as
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  heck will hold the junior officers, you know, the senior
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  sergeants down to the Connies. They'll they will freaking hold
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  you accountable. Don't you worry about that just
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  disgust me now, not just that wasn't the only thing I wanted
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  to talk about. This other story had come up
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  that considering that it seems that our news, our media just
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  don't seem to be they're not focused on QBs news at the
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  moment that much, I thought I'd better talk about it.
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  So this came out on Sky News report reveals Queensland police
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  dismissed thousands of misconduct complaints according
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  including sorry, including for misuse of authority, assault and
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  alleged domestic violence. Now before I before I go on more
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  with this, I will tell you I put in a complaint about someone.
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  It was last last year, an officer basically I had someone,
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  I had two officers come to the back door.
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  I wasn't here. I was at work back door.
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  And it was just just before and just before midnight, come
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  knocking on the House, come round to the backyard, just
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  banging on the walls. Woke my wife up.
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  Absolutely the arrogance the the main officer who was talking
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  just could not give a damn that he'd woken my wife up.
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  Just couldn't care less. I mean, you, you know, if anyone
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  did that to his wife, he they would be held to pay.
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  But this father just couldn't get less.
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  Absolute arrogance. The way he spoke, looking for me
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  because he was looking for me because they wanted to serve
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  some papers on me because apparently I had to go to court.
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  I wasn't in trouble. But yeah, I had to get a court
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  for as a witness for a, for a case.
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  But the arrogance, absolute arrogance.
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  And then some wives there have asleep no idea what he's talking
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  about. So, you know, they've got all
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  this time they've dropped the card off early in the afternoon.
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  No one's bothered coming around for the rest of the day.
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  But they decided just before midnight that's a good time to
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  come round bang on the door and and wake someone up, you know,
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  and my wife had to get up at 6:00 the next morning to go to
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  go to work again. It's just Rexha, I put it in a
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  complaint about it and the way he spoke.
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  And then the and I'm talking about this because of this
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  article, because the way the case, my complaint was just
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  written off. The email I got back was well,
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  we went through the footage and you know, yeah, it was a bit
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  late and yeah, it was a bit abrupt or whatever, but
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  everything was all good. You shouldn't have to worry
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  about it. Oh, and we they did note that
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  when the officer walked away, and I knew this, the officer
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  walked away and it was just like a bit of a second thought.
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  He was walking away. And just before he gets around
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  the corner, he says to my father, yeah, yeah, sorry about
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  the coming here so late that. And that was the extent of the
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  apology. Very sorry.
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  You know, it's not like you're criminals.
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  It's not like you're out, you're doing anything wrong or we have
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  to arrest. We just we're looking for your
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  husband. We have to give him some
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  paperwork. And we decided that we dropped a
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  card card in the letterbox at 3:00 in the afternoon.
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  And we decided that, hey, no one can get back here until almost
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  midnight tonight. That's here.
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  So I make a complaint. It was just basically brushed
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  off. So all this just just remind me,
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  I was reading this article. Wow, isn't it funny?
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  They just, this is what they do. This article.
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  So it reveals QBs dismissed thousands of misconduct
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  complaints OK, so a new report from Queensland Police has
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  revealed thousands of complaints made against the service last
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  year were dismissed without action, despite hundreds
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  including serious accusations of misuse of authority.
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  That's what I thought mine was. Mine was a misuse of authority.
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  It was arrogance. He, he knew who I was and he
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  just, he just wanted to make a point.
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  That's what I thought anyway. He was just being a, he was just
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  being a pain. So misuse of authority, assault
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  and alleged domestic violence. The Queensland Police Service
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  Annual Report for 20/23/24 showed there had been 2698
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  complaints both internally and by members of the public
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  containing 8302 allegations, but no action was taken to address
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  5400 of the alleged acts of misconduct despite police
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  deeming the claims lawful and reasonable.
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  Of those 5400 allegations, 2769 related to failure of duty, 1214
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  to unprofessional conduct, 902 to misuse of authority, 689 to
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  assault or excessive force, 337 to unlawful or unauthorised
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  operational practise and 120 to members allegedly involved in
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  domestic violence. But you know, why would they be
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  investigating members to do with domestic violence?
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  It's not like we've had a big inquiry or anything.
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  It's not like they've done that, no.
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  There were also 534 allegations of interfering with or
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  undermining an investigation or legal process as of June 30.
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  The reports that police had finalised just 1850 complaints,
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  leaving 848 still open, while those resolved resulted in a
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  total of 5 apologies, 55 apology, only 5, 5 managerial
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  resolutions, 5 explanations and 16 disciplinary actions, a
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  process known as Local Management Resolution.
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  Yeah, crikey, yeah, I know that. In which a member of staff
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  undergoes a professional development conversation with
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  the more senior office officer or colleague was used to resolve
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  489 of the allegations, the report notes.
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  LMR was used to provide guidance to staff based on the
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  acknowledgement they would make genuine mistakes, with the aim
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  of helping those subject to allegations to improve their
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  performance and aligning the members behaviour with the
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  organisation principles. I'm not sure if the organisation
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  has actual principles these days.
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  Look, I just think everyone makes mistakes.
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  Every everyone makes mistakes, OK?
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  Everyone can have a lapse of judgement and go the wrong way
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  and things. The issue I've got at the moment
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  is QPS just don't seem to be owning up to anything.
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  They don't. They have officers who are
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  abusing their power, abusing their authority, not doing
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  things the right way, and they're not being held
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  accountable. But the problem is you have
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  senior officers doing the same thing when you have the
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  commissioner goes and blows 25.9 million, then just pulls the pin
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  on the programme and then she just walks away.
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  You know, because she was earning what, what was it some
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  ridiculous amount of money? I think it was like 600 grand a
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  year or something like that. And she just allowed to walk
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  away several months short of when her contract finished.
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  No explanation for the 25.9 million, no accountability at
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  all. And when you have policies
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  brought in about, about the recruitment where well, we, we
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  want to get recruits now who are just interested in, in money and
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  lifestyle. There's no accountability from
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  the top down. And then they just go and want
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  to brush complaints under the carpet and not not hold these
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  other junior officers accountable for their actions
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  either, you know, just dismissing these accounts,
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  dismissing these complaints as if they don't matter.
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  We've lost the ability to communicate with the public.
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  And we we seem to have this generation of just arrogant
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  police who who just behave as if they don't have to answer.
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  That's what it seemed like when I had when the way my wife's
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  describing the way this chap and this other female officer come
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  to the back door. It's like, well, you know,
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  though, they do a job. I'll be quite honest to none of
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  it really. They were there to do a job and
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  they didn't really care that they'd woken her up.
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  They didn't really see the point.
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  Well, whatever, we're just here to do our job and you have to
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  revolve around what we're doing. We've got to serve some really
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  important documents on Jason. Funny thing is, the whole thing
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  fell over and I didn't have to go to court in the end anyway.
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  I was just a complete waste of time.
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  The QPS, you know, obviously got my phone number.
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  They've had it for a long, long, long time.
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  Got my email address, you know, that served me all these other
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  documents via email but they couldn't they couldn't get a
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  hold of me before until, you know, near midnight this time to
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  serve documents. It's just absolutely ridiculous
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  and and then no one could apparently see the problem with
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  it. No one could see the problem
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  with it, you know, And I think I see the officers still getting
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  coffee. And he just kind of side eyed
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  me, side eyes me these days anyway.
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  But yeah, this is, this is the issue when you don't, there's no
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  accountability. Like we've got these officers
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  that, like the one that wrote me, wrote a comment on on the
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  YouTube channel about how they're going to QCAT and QPS
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  are chasing them for legal costs.
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  They will chase. It's, it's weird.
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  Some of the things that the organisation will chase after,
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  the people that they will chase after for money they will chase
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  after for, you know, to uphold their policies.
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  But then the other things like blowing through 25.9 million, we
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  can have a look at that, that's no big deal.
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  Or we can, we can write that off, we can explain all that.
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  It's all good. There's no accountability and
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  nothing that anyone needs to worry about here.
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  I'd like to see the L&P, our new government.
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  Are they actually going to hold Katarina, the former leadership
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  team, are they going to hold them accountable for wasting all
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  that money? 25.9 million.
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  We don't need an inquiry. We need her.
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  We need her to actually, you know, have someone come around,
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  say, hey, love, you need to come sit before some serious people
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  and answer some serious questions, Give us some proper
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  answers. What the heck happened to the
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  $25.9 million that you were overseeing anyway?
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  Well, this is just my opinion. It seems strange to me that that
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  other report was put out just before, just before the
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  election, No one else ran with it.
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  There's nothing else to talk about.
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  And you know, QBs have all these complaints made against it, but
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  they can just seemingly write such a vast majority of them
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  off. No accountability.
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  Anyway, hey, that's just my opinion.
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  I'm Jay Fallon, like they say, just a number.
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  Thanks for listening to this.