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Domestic and family violence (DFV) wasn't a part of everyday life for Acting Sergeant Alicia McKeering when she was growing up. When she became a police...
Date Time QPS ‘Spread Warmth’ for Mother’s Day Together, the Queensland Police Service (QPS) Spread the Warmth for Mother’s Day by donating new bath robes to mums fleeing domestic violence and living in crisis accommodation. From the combined efforts of staff around Brisbane, QPS collected over 100 bath robes. Commissioner Katarina Carroll proudly showing off some of the QPS’ contribution to the cause Commissioner Katarina Carroll said that the prevalence of domestic and family violence (DFV) in the community is significant, with our police attending over 260 DFV related calls for s...
Share on Twitter Video above: Insight asks: what is coercive control and should it be a crime? Intimate Terrorism, Tuesday, May 11 at 8:30pm on SBS and On Demand. Warning: some readers may find this article distressing. Fourteen months after their daughter, Hannah and their three grandchildren, Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey were murdered, Sue and Lloyd Clarke have revealed they plan to set up gated communities to protect victim-survivors of domestic violence. “Hopefully we can start organising some gated communities… So, once they leave the perpetrators, they've got some sort of p...
Last modified on Mon 26 Apr 2021 14.18 EDT The Queensland police service employs fewer than 90 officers as specialists in domestic and family violence, despite case numbers rising to more than 100,000 a year across the state. As the QPS attempts to understand its own “failures” to protect murdered Gold Coast mother Kelly Wilkinson, support services and victims’ advocates have spoken out about the chronic under-resourcing of programs designed to intervene to prevent harm to women. One of those programs involves integrated “high-risk” teams, largely led by non-government organisations...