Exclusive: Lack of punishment follows repeated promises by police commissioner Katarina Carroll to crack down on racism and mysoginy within service
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Officers recorded making “sickening” racist comments while working inside a Brisbane watch house have escaped sanction, despite repeated promises by the police commissioner to crack down on racism and misogyny within the service.Queensland’s police commissioner, Katarina Carroll, said at a press conference last year she believed officers making such comments “should not be in the organisation” after Guardian Australia exclusively published the leaked recordings.
The tapes revealed officers joking about beating and burying black people, referring to Nigerians as “jigaboos”, and raising fears of “outbreeding” by Muslim immigrants.
The premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, condemned the recordings – which captured comments by watch house officers (a non-policing role) and sworn police – as “horrific”.
The deputy police commissioner, Mark Wheeler, apologised at the time for the “sickening” racist comments and said the “beliefs and remarks have no place in society, let alone a professional workplace where vulnerable people are held in custody”.
Tim Prenzler, a leading expert in police accountability, said the revelations “underscore the need for a much more robust and independent integrity management system for the QPS”.
However, national director at Change the Record and Gunggari person, Maggie Munn, said it was “mind blowing” that the officers involved had avoided serious repercussions.
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b000urns@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Any other job, you would no longer have a job. Ridiculous