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Police discriminated against men in a female-focused hiring spree that saw 200 men who should have been hired miss out on a job. The bombshell finding is contained in a Crime and Corruption Commission report tabled in parliament today into a female recruitment strategy employed by the Queensland Police Service between December 2015 to October 2018. "The discriminatory practices saw different standards applied to female and male applicants, with females selected in preference to male applicants who had performed to a higher standard across entry assessments," the corruption watchdog found. ...

THE HUNT BEGINS RICK Charles Maddison was a local crook who had been annoying police for years. He was known for being aggressive and mouthy. He knew bikies, his name had come up during drug raids and in 2007 he'd been heard making a serious threat towards Sen-Sgt Stahlhut (Stahlhut would tell the inquest he did not know about this until 2017). He told people he was going to ambush the senior sergeant and other officers in a driveway. Maddison and a mate would hide behind mulch piles and take them out with an automatic weapon. That same year, the inquest was told Stahlhut wrote an intel...

20:26 EDT, 8 April 2021 A serving police officer has been charged with assault over the arrest of a man in Sydney's northwest. Professional Standards Command have been investigating the alleged incident, which occurred on September 5 last year, and on Thursday charged a male senior constable. The officer, attached to a command in the city's northwest, was issued with a court attendance notice on Thursday for the offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault. He is due to appear before Parramatta Local Court on Thursday May 20. The man's current employment status is u...

Woman applies for domestic violence order against senior cop A police officer has fronted court in Darwin where a woman applied to take out a domestic violence order against him. Crime by Jason Walls Premium Content Subscriber only A SENIOR NT Police officer has fronted court in Darwin where a woman applied to take out a domestic violence order against him. Superintendent Daniel Shean, 47, appeared in the Darwin Local Court on Tuesday in the domestic violence list. Superintendent Daniel Shean provides an update on a rock throwing incident at a Darwi...

Premium Content Subscriber only No action will be taken regarding a complaint to the Queensland Police Ethical Standards Command concerning the investigation into an incident involving Neville Butcher and a One Nation volunteer during 2020 early voting. At Boyne Island Community Centre on October 21, One Nation volunteer Ian Paterson alleged an incident occurred involving he and the former Queensland Police officer, who is the father of Gladstone MP Glenn Butcher. On the day of the incident, Glenn Butcher said his father was informed of Mr Paterson when he arrived at the booth to deliver how-...