She had not identified herself as a police officer because she said she was not the type of person who ignored her title with the expectation that she would be treated differently.
The investigation also heard Sergeant Paul Trinder, who was the shift supervisor at the time of the alleged threats to behead the family dog and assault the woman.
He said the chief officer at work, a senior agent, had not told him about the threats or the assault, despite receiving specific advice from a shift supervisor earlier in the day on how to proceed with the case.
It wasn’t until the next day that Trinder saw the previous supervisor that he knew all the details of the alleged assault. He then issued a directive to the two officers, especially the senior police chief, who had not properly investigated the case.
“He was quite outraged that he would have questioned his decision-making. It wasn’t taken well,” Trinder said.
Trinder also raised other examples of failed domestic violence assistance by officers, including a high-level officer who did not open an assigned domestic violence job for two months.
The case was an alleged violation of a domestic violence order.
At that time, the victim was not contacted by a single member of the Queensland Police Service.
“As I learned that this officer had been transferred to another station,” Trinder said, recalling how the officer had “gaped” the jobs in the station’s inbox for reassignment.
Trinder said he asked the officer, who previously had police experience in two other countries, why he had not finished the job, and told him he still had to complete the cases, as he was only moving to one district. neighbor.
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He said he was then threatened with disciplinary action by the officer’s new station supervisor for assigning jobs outside a district.
Trinder said a major problem with the QPS was unconscious bias, and some officers often downplayed their level of work by avoiding certain aspects of work that involved domestic violence.
He also said many agents considered domestic orders violations or breaches involving phone calls or text messages to be low-level.
The investigation will continue next week with hearings in Cairns.
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