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5.1.1.2 Queensland. 5.1.1.3 Western Australia. 5.2 New ... agencies and similar bodies that are responsible for investigating or responding to complaints about police.
The Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct (the Fitzgerald Inquiry; 1987–1989) into Queensland Police corruption was a judicial inquiry presided over by Tony Fitzgerald QC.
In 2007, the CMC Director of Intelligence claimed a lack of telephone interception or phone tapping powers meant crime bosses in Queensland were avoiding prosecution. [12] In 2010, the first public hearings conducted by the CMC were held in relation to police corruption on the Gold Coast following the Operation Tesco misconduct probe. [13]
In 2013, Lex Wotton, as well as his wife Cecilia and Mother Agnes, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Indigenous Australian people who lived on Palm Island against the State of Queensland and the Commissioner of the Police Service, alleging that the police had committed acts of unlawful racial discrimination, in breach of section 9(1) of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) in the ...
Complaints were made that Aboriginal Legal Aid had been denied access to the Island. Queensland Police Union President Denis Fitzpatrick demanded the rioters be charged with attempted murder of 12 police. The police who had been stationed on the island indicated through the Union that they did not wish to return to Island duties. [23]
The Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) was created to combat and reduce the incidence of major crime and to reduce the incidence of misconduct in the Queensland public sector. Complaints about the police are rarely investigated by the CCC which passes police matters back to the service for internal review. [9]
Steven Marshall (born 12 December 1989) is an Australian whistleblower and senior watch house officer in the Queensland Police Service. He is known for leaking information about racism, sexual harassment and human rights abuses in the Queensland Police Service between 2022 and 2023.
The Criminal Justice Commission was established in 1989 by the Queensland Criminal Justice Act 1989, following widespread corruption amongst high-level Queensland politicians and police officers being uncovered in the Fitzgerald Inquiry. It has since merged in 2002 with the Queensland Crime Commission to form the Crime and Misconduct Commission.