As hard questions are asked about Queensland police’s leadership, concerns are raised about a new focus on recruitment
The former officers Michael Pecic and Jacinta Buchbach – who now run training organisation In Safe Hands Educators In Safety – say cultural change in the QPS “will likely take years”.
It says the QPS is “not adequately resourced to meet the growing demand of responding to domestic and family violence, particularly in relation to numbers of frontline officers and specialist staff and units”. “There are stations in central Queensland that apparently can’t even fill a car to cover a shift,” one officer says.Others question the notion that more officers would be a panacea to addressing domestic and family violence. The criminologist Kerry Carrington says changing the structure and culture of policing is needed.
Community support services say they are held to high governance standards for government funding, and that there is not enough money to go around. At the same time, the politics of police numbers has become a cop measuring competition.
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