Returning home after visiting her sick daughter in regional Victoria, a Townsville woman has been forced into the back of a police van to get to her hotel. 9News
Ms Develyn saw no reason why she could not sit inside the other cars, like other passengers told her they were.
"I was put in the back. No seatbelt, and then he locked the door, he bolted it, I could hear the turn of the key and the bolt and I was just devastated," she said.The incident happened on Tuesday but It was not until earlier today that Ms Develyn finally received an apology from a local police officer.
"He didn't tell me why it had occurred, he just said it won't happen again and he was apologising that it did happen to me," she said. "I sincerely and unreservedly apologise, that is not the way we managed that incident," Chief Superintendent Craig Hanlon said.Ms Develyn is calling for more compassion from those working on the front-line and dealing with people going into mandatory quarantine.
"I feel there's a real uniform presence, but there's no heart, you know and I think if you're going to employ people Queensland health, let's get it together," she said.
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