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Qld Police Union urges seconded officers to leave CCC · The Slippery Slope

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  Welcome back to the Slippery Slope podcast.
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  I'm Jay Fallon, obviously. So today's episode, what I want
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  to talk about the story we're covering is it's just it's not
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  just another headline to myself, it's about dysfunction inside
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  Queensland's institutions. It's a story.
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  It's a story I lived the Korean males reporting that the
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  Queensland police union. Queensland Police Union is
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  urging more than 60 seconded officers police officers to walk
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  out of the Crime and Corruption Commission.
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  Why? Because a Supreme Court
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  challenged has raised the possibility that 20 years of the
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  Triple C investigations may have been conducted by officers who
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  weren't legally authorised to be there.
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  And it's so I've got to talk about that not just not just as
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  a commentator, obviously, but as someone who was one of those
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  seconded officers. So what's happened?
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  The the article reveals two major issues the Triple C has
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  been disciplining seconded officers, seconded police
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  officers under its own internal regime, not under the Queensland
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  Service Administration Administration Act.
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  The second issue, major issue, legal advice now suggests that
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  seconded officers may not have been properly authorised under
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  the Crime and Corruption Act, meaning their powers, their
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  appointments and potentially their investigations could be
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  invalid, potentially so. So this isn't this isn't, it's
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  not just a, a paperwork error, this is a, it's a structural
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  failure that that could undermine 2 decades of
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  corruption investigations and the QPU, the Queensland Police
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  Union knows it. That's why they're telling
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  officers to get out now. So my experience inside the
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  triple C OK, so here's how or here's where this story for me
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  anyhow, it becomes, it becomes personal.
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  I was a Queensland Police service officer.
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  Just in case you don't know anything about me or this
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  podcast, this my podcast, the Slippery Slope.
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  So I was a Queensland Police Service officer and I was
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  seconded to the Triple C to the Crime and Corruption Commission.
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  I worked inside that organisation.
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  I saw how it operated. I saw the culture, the pressure,
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  the politics, the the internal contradictions.
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  And I also saw how quickly you can be discarded when you don't
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  beat the narrative. When Queensland police mandated
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  the COVID vaccination, I made a personal personal decision not
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  to take it. The triple C responded by
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  terminating my secondment, even though the mandate came from
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  QPS, not the triple C. Then QPS punished me again,
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  standing me down and cutting off my pay.
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  So we had two institutions, 2 punishments, one decision, and
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  now years later we discover that the triple C, the Crime and
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  Corruption Commission, may not have even had the legal
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  authority, authority to second officers in the 1st place.
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  You just let that sink in for a second.
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  They were happy to remove me from a secondment that may not
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  have been legally valid. They were happy to enforce
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  discipline under a framework that may not have applied to me.
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  And they were happy to punish me twice while operating under a
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  system that is now being questioned in the Supreme Court.
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  This is the hypocrisy. This is, this is the rot, the
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  kind of rot that I've been talking about for several years
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  now. So what this all reveals, I
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  believe this reveals about the triple C and about QPS, the
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  Queensland Police Service. This story exposes something
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  I've been saying for years, if you've been following me.
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  OK. Queensland's institutions are
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  not built on truth. They are built on a facade.
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  They are built on, like the good doctor said to me years ago,
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  it's all about perception. It's all about perception, Jay.
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  They're built on power, process, and self protection.
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  That's that's all they're built on, not on truth.
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  When when you're useful, they keep you.
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  When you're inconvenient, they discard you.
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  When you raise concerns, they ignore you.
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  And when you stand on principle, they punish you because these
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  institutions don't stand on principles.
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  And now the very foundations of the triple CS operations, the
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  legality of secondments, the validity of coercive powers, the
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  disciplinary framework, their disciplinary framework are being
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  challenged. This isn't an accident.
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  It's the inevitable result of leadership that values
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  compliance over integrity. So let's take a brief look at
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  moral and spiritual the spiritual dimension to all this
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  The Bible warns repeatedly about corrupt systems and leaders who
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  twist justice. Isaiah 10 says woe to those who
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  make unjust laws and to those who issue oppressive decrees.
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  This is what happened during the mandate.
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  Unjust laws throughout all of society and oppressive decrees
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  going out with that oppressed the rights of all individuals,
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  whether you agreed or not. That's, that's what we're seeing
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  here, Institutions that demand obedience but don't follow their
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  own legislation, leaders who enforce rules selectively and
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  systems that punish the principled and protect the
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  powerful. And why I say all that is
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  because the Queensland government, they always say that
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  they stand by and they stand for human rights, OK, with, if you
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  work within the Queensland government and within that
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  framework, you have to, you have to agree to stand by, to work
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  within human rights framework. However, the Queensland
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  government, QPS, the triple C, if something's too hard for
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  them, OK, it becomes difficult to, to work within the human
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  rights framework that they say they stand behind, OK.
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  They, they just like the facade of saying it.
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  If it becomes too difficult, then they will come up with a
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  clause, they will come up with something that says, Oh well,
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  OK, we stand by it. But right at this time we can't
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  uphold human rights. So they always give themselves
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  an out. And then that's why I say they,
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  they demand obedience, but they don't follow the very
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  legislation they say that they follow.
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  They just have that facade so they can put up a plaque and say
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  to the outside world, oh, look, we, we stand by this, we stand
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  by this legislation. We stand by human rights, except
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  for when it becomes too hard. But they demand that everyone
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  else follows the law. Everyone else follows
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  legislation. Everyone else follows what what
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  they want you to follow. So the bigger question is this.
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  If the Triple C, the Crime and Corruption Commission has been
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  operating with invalid secondments for 20 years.
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  If if it has, what happens to past investigations?
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  What happens to coercive hearings?
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  What happens to disciplinary actions?
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  What happens to people like me who were removed under a
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  framework that may not have been lawful?
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  And most importantly, how does a corruption watchdog fail to
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  follow its own legislation for two decades?
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  That's if. That's if.
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  If it's been invalid. OK, let's, I'm not jumping the
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  gun. I'm not.
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  I'm just saying these are the questions that that are being
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  that will be raised. This is not a small issue.
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  This is a, it's a crisis of legitimacy.
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  The story isn't over. The Supreme Court will decide
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  the legal questions, but the the moral questions are already
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  answered. Queensland's institutions are
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  broken. They punish the wrong people far
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  too often, they ignore their own rules far too often, and they
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  operate without the accountability they demand from
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  everyone else. It's not just Queensland, this
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  is Australia wide in in actual fact.
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  As always, this is just my opinion.
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  I'm Jay Fallon, thank you for listening to the Slippery Slope
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  podcast. They just.
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