Bollocks - if Police were allowed to be Police we'd be far better off.

Police leave from pure frustration with the system - where they make the arrests for all types of anti-social, criminal & DV issues & the Judiciary just keeps letting them loose.

Why? because our jails are overflowing.

What a sad indictment on our society.

Helped out by whining virtue signaling softcocks like Bwyan.

And again there are no "First Nations" people - they are Aboriginal people who belonged to various tribal and clan groups.

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 10^th, 2024 at 10:19am:

QPS puts 'traditional' skills first
Mr McDougall said the review found the QPS still favoured physical skills traditionally held by white men without caring responsibilities.

"Police from diverse backgrounds bring unique skills and experiences to the job that QPS should value and recognise," he said.

"For example … recruits are required to swim 100 [metres] before [joining] QPS despite rarely ... needing to swim on duty.

"It means the ability to swim is valued higher than other valuable skills like the ability to speak other languages or use emerging technologies that are increasingly critical to policing."


The QHRC heard about people being labelled "diversity hires" and that one officer felt they wouldn't have been promoted if they were more vocal about their Aboriginality.

Ah.

Frank wrote on Dec 10^th, 2024 at 1:25pm:


Genuine Occupational Requirements of a General Duties Police
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
• Maintain operational safety under varying/unpredictable work conditions.
• Maintain public order, exercise police powers, investigate incidents.
• Deal with uncooperative/aggressive people.
• Manage incidents involving significant conflict or emotional distress.
• Exercise authority and give directions, using discretion and coercive force when necessary.
• Patrolling and/or driving for prolonged periods of time whilst wearing an equipment belt weighing approximately 7kg.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
• Wear an accoutrements belt carrying approximately 7kg of equipment.
• Wear a load bearing vest weighting for entire shifts.
• Wear a bullet proof vest weighting up to 10kg when necessary.
• Physically restrain individuals and utilise self-defence techniques where necessary.
• Walking long distances while performing beat duties.
• Standing for lengthy periods for example while on traffic duty or guarding a crime scene.
• Withstand physical assault from another person.
• Wrestle with and physically restrain a person.
• Safely handle a firearm while on duty.
• Climb stairs to ascend more than one story of a building.
• Overall strength and co-ordination to restrain a suspect while applying handcuffs.
• Lift, restrain, push, pull non-compliant persons or bodies of any weight without assistance.
• Physical agility to run, crawl, crouch, reach and twisting of head and back during situations.
COMMUNICATION REQUIREMENTS
• Adapt communication style to suit different situations, including noisy environments.
• Adapt communication strategies to meet client needs.
• Read and comprehend written communication.
• Deal with challenging people.
• Prepare forms, correspondence, and legal briefs of evidence.
OBSERVATION AND MEMORY SKILLS
• Hear and comprehend information without eye-view of the speaker.
• Long range visual acuity, short range visual acuity and colour vision.
• Ability to effectively apply relevant aspects of legislation, policies and procedures.
RESILIENCE AND ADAPTABILITY
• Perform shift work over a 24-hour rotating roster, which may not be conducive to regular breaks.
• Perform shift of between 8 to 12 hours duration (or longer if overtime is worked).
• Ability to operate effectively in stressful and physically demanding situations.
• Cope with irregular meal and toilet breaks during a shift.
• Mental ability to manage and deal with stressful, traumatic, and hazardous situations.
• Ability to deal with challenging and/or emotional people.
• Deal with general physical abuse, verbal abuse, and aggressive behaviour.

Basic physical requirements are not 'putting traditional' stuff before other attributes and abilities. - they are basic physical requirements.

'must be able to fire and handle weapon accurately and safely' - but most never will have to do so IRL.  So what ?  They abandon weapons training?  So they don't swim - so what?


Ummmmm .... Yeeee-ussssh .... Riiiiightt!!

"This study uses 34 years of data from the National Homicide Monitoring Program to describe the prevalence and characteristics of homicide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

Between 1 July 1989 and 30 June 2023, 476 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women were the victim of a homicide. Indigenous women experienced a homicide victimisation rate up to seven times the national average. Ninety-six percent (n=455) of the 473 homicide incidents involving an Indigenous woman were cleared by police. Almost all victims from cleared incidents were killed by someone they knew (97%, n=446), most by an Indigenous male intimate partner (66%, n=301).

Findings highlight the over-representation of Indigenous women as victims of homicide in Australia and provide baseline data to measure Closing the Gap targets to reduce homicide and other violent victimisation among these women."

Bet they fudged the figures to broaden them to 'across the entire population' and not just the 3.8% TOTAL - meaning far less than 2% Aboriginal men. If you look at 7 times multiplied by 96.2/3.8 .... you arrive at the figure of??????? or more realistically (say) 98/2 (2% Aboriginal men in total population) - you get?

Answer:-  49 times greater probability of being killed by a partner (etc).... not 7 times.  7 times 7 ...

An astronomically higher probability of an Aboriginal woman being killed by a partner or close relative.  Remember in the Northern Terruhtree Aboriginal women are 93% of deaths - most at the hands of partners or those they know well.

"Armitage's investigations have found 81 women have died as a result of domestic violence in the NT since 2000. 93% of them were Aboriginal. The NT has the worst domestic and family violence rates in the nation. Its domestic homicide rate is seven times the national rate."

Well - not according to that study - which says this is national..... what part of National is so difficult to understand in THIS context?  We know it's hard to understand National Park - two simple words - but why is this hard?  It looks like they've taken the NT figures as national - or the national figures are the same as the NT and the NT does NOT have the highest rate - just first among equals, eh?

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If someone cannot swim 100 meters there is something seriously wrong with them. It does not matter if police only "rarely" need the skill. You only need to drown once to be dead.

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How exactly is swimming a white man skill? If anything it would favour women, as they tend to float a bit better. And if a man loses the ability to swim 100 meters because he becomes a father, he is not in a fit state to be a police officer.

Gnads wrote on Dec 10^th, 2024 at 10:52am:


True enough.  My older son always said he was so thankful he never had Magistrate Pat O'Shane presiding over a case because she had such a blatant hatred of police.  There is always a "please explain" from the heirarchy when police lose a case - but when O'Shane was the presiding magistrate, it was always a shake of the head and quite understandable.

The Supreme Court found that O'Shane had got the law wrong in 14 out of 16 criminal cases... In one case she dismissed a charge even though the accused had entered a plea of guilty". Supreme Court judges criticised O'Shane for "denying the prosecution procedural fairness," and "failure to comprehend the basis of the prosecution case or the evidence before her, use of intemperate language and making numerous errors of law.

It's hard enough being an officer, but when a magistrate has a vengeance against police and is allowed to carry out her own version of "justice" you can see where the frustrations come into it.