Steve Gollschewski says he has ordered that no records be destroyed as Queensland Police Service combs its archives to share with the inquiry.
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The commissioner said QPS had set up a First Nations unit that would analyse the records of the state's Native Police — "I think more of that detail will come out, but clearly they were part of the executive arm of some of that policy, and they took actions that we would not tolerate in any shape or form in current society," he said.Inquiry chair, Kalkadoon man and barrister Joshua Creamer said those representatives had admitted to "160 years of failure" in how the government had treated First Nations people.
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