Queensland/Police
 Queensland/Police     | |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1 January 1864 |
| Headquarters | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Leaders | • Queensland/Minister/Police • Commissioner of the Queensland Police Force |
The Queensland Police Service is the police force of the Australian state of Queensland.
Political surveillance
In February 2023, it was exposed that Queensland Police had introduced new procedures for recording interactions with "conspiracy theorists and those spouting religious-related ideology." Officers must now record all interactions with people holding ideological beliefs in the central information database used by officers across the state known as QPrime at the "first available opportunity". It will then be assessed by the state's counter-terrorism investigation teams. The matter can then be escalated and individuals flagged. The memo describes the "at-risk" groups as conspiracy theorists, religious, social or political extremists and sovereign citizens, as well as people with ideologies relating to capitalism, communism, socialism or Marxism.[2]
Sexual blackmail
In 1997, the Courier-Mail published a series of articles exposing how Queensland Commissioner of Police Terry Lewis (1976-1987) had kept secret files on criminal sexual behaviour involving top state and federal government advisers and senior Queensland public servants. Lewis's purpose in maintaining such material was to blackmail those compromised by the 'dirt files'. The secret files were part of a collection of documents seized by Fitzgerald Inquiry investigation police corruption from private safes at Police Headquarters and Lewis’s residence. But the contents of the files were not investigated, either during the Fitzgerald Inquiry or since.[3]
One of the secret files contained documents from a national paedophile task force which had investigated Russell John Grenning, a senior ministerial adviser to successive National Party state governments.[3] Another of the secret files comprised 20 pages and contained police reports and surveillance running sheets on an undercover operation targeting a senior public servant; One of the secret files contained a statement concerning a convicted paedophile outlining allegations of involvement in drug trafficking and gun-running against Paul Breslin, director-general of the Queensland Department of Mines and Energy.[3]
References
- ↑ https://www.echo.net.au/2014/12/queensland-police-corrupted-corporate-sponsorship/
- ↑ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-17/qld-police-sovereign-citizens-extremist-wieambilla-attack/101989398
- ↑ a b c https://www.ccc.qld.gov.au/sites/default/files/Docs/Public-Hearings/Inquiry-into-allegations-of-misconduct-paedophilia-Kimmins/Inquiry-into-allegations-of-misconduct-in-the-investigation-of-paedophilia-in-qld-Report-1998.pdf page 21-24
