A Townsville inquest hears Queensland police are entering the job woefully unprepared for domestic and family violence matters, but that training is aiming to improve the situation in north Queensland.
"I would say the allegations that Mrs Schulte made were quite serious and … in my view a police application should have been commenced [instead of classifying them as street checks]."
But Sergeant Rhodes said officers never received any training on how to apply the DVPAF appropriately. She told the inquest that in 2018 the training given to officers was inadequate, but that the service had since worked to improve on its response to DFV matters. "There is a lot of cultural training for the QPS about changing our culture and how we are responding to domestic and family violence," Sergeant Feltham said.