Officer gives evidence of colleagues describing rapes in intimate relationships as ‘surprise sex’, and saying they ‘deserved to be raped’
Queensland police officer tells inquiry he heard colleagues make offensive remarks about rape victims.Queensland police officer tells inquiry he heard colleagues make offensive remarks about rape victims.Queensland
Officers have also said “domestic violence is just foreplay”, “she’s too ugly to be raped” and “I can see why he does it to her”, he told theHe said he has heard female colleagues being called “Cunty McCunt Face”, “fucking sluts”, “bitches” and “mole” behind their backs.The inquiry heard that some victim-survivors reporting allegations of violence have been turned away at the front counter of police stations, with some officers reluctant to take further action unless they have other evidence.
The officer said he’s experienced colleagues becoming angry with him when he has made further inquiries into domestic violence incidents and updated reports with crucial information that had been left out or described in vague terms.“We need to be co-locating with DV services so survivors feel safe … so that they don’t have to front up to the police station where they’re not going to be listened to or taken seriously.
“One of the other members … who had had kind of cross order stuff going on with a partner, said really angrily, ‘I’ll kill her’, in reference to his ex-partner,” he told the inquiry.He told the inquiry that on one occasion he was in a police car with an officer who deliberately drove away from a suburb to avoid responding to a domestic violence incident.
Racism within the police force is also pervasive, the hearing was told, with offensive slurs used to describe Indigenous Australians and an officer commenting: “What do we expect? He’s a savage.” The officer said he received an email from a colleague late last year telling him they didn’t think there was an issue in how police responded to domestic violence.
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