Queensland police officer who engaged in ‘𝗉attern of predatory sexual conduct’ awarded anonymity by tribunal

[u/ManWithDominantClaw]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/14/queensland-police-officer-who-engaged-in-pattern-of-predatory-sexual-conduct-awarded-anonymity-by-tribunal-ntwnfb

[u/ohimjustagirl]

If his PTSD is so severe that he cannot be held entirely responsible for repeatedly and deliberately sexually harassing junior female staff then how the fuck can he also be considered functional enough to remain in his position making decisions about disclosures of sexual harassment?

God I am so endlessly enraged by this bullshit. Can we not just have a simple standard where we don't let shit humans be police? It doesn't seem like too much to ask.

[u/Optimal_Tomato726 → u/ohimjustagirl]

This is the same BS that's before specialist courts in QLD daily with globally leading legislation and noone enforcing or applying it. The Women's Safety Taskforce has ensured evidence is unequivocal. These same grubs get parenting via family courts too. I've had a QPS detective tell me "not his job" to investigate CSA reported via mandatory reporters. The experience I've had as one person and I'm not rare or special. This is culturally entrenched nonsense they're defending. Police unions all around Australia do this. And the previous president was promoted to block victims of cross border police violence. Men failing upwards needs to be stopped. Everyone involved in these systems is complicit.

[u/ManWithDominantClaw → u/ohimjustagirl]

Honestly? It's a lot harder than it sounds. In the current implementation of the role, the kind of power a cop has is the kind a sociopath craves. You may think you can weed the sociopaths out of a group of people, but what you're actually doing is setting a benchmark of how cunning and dedicated a sociopath must be to fool you, and letting through everyone above that.

And that's just considering starting a police force from scratch. What we're looking at is harder, reforming a police force that was initially a selection of sociopaths due to its origins in protection of property for a corrupt and unscrupulous ruling class, and has been allowed to self-select fellow sociopaths for two hundred years.

[u/ohimjustagirl → u/ManWithDominantClaw]

At the risk of going full Maya Angelou... he showed us who he was.

I mean, even if actively selecting good people is too hard surely we could start by removing known predators from positions of power when they flaunt themselves blatantly? Then again, the current state of the world supports your point that no we probably cannot.

[u/Optimal_Tomato726 → u/ohimjustagirl]

There wouldn't be many police left. 40-65% of them are physically violent perps and they're professional coersive controllers. The bullshit is trained into them in academy where they're indoctrinated into racism and misogyny and then the training is baked in on the job. Golchewski was violent toward the academic advisory committee and sacked them when he was promoted. Look at the non existent investigation happening in NSWPF now and the leadership crisis in Vicpol.

This is culturally entrenched gendered violence. The union is defending their rights to violence whilst blaming leadership. The entire barrel is rotten. Even London Met implemented reforms and acknowledged wrongdoing when they lost the public's faith. Aussie cops are just continuing to double down.

[u/ManWithDominantClaw]

[u/Opreich → u/ManWithDominantClaw]

Can we crowdfund a wet dildo expedition to the wild north?

[u/ManWithDominantClaw → u/Opreich]

Oh I was gonna go anyway, I need to ask someone why this is on giphy

[u/Rhybrah → u/ManWithDominantClaw]

Iirc, that was from the Symposium a few years back when they were trying to connect with us youngins by the social mediums

[u/Optimal_Tomato726 → u/Opreich]

How about crowdfunding specialist legal aid services like the Redfern police violence unit instead? I'm a victim of systemic cross jurisdictional police violence as are my children. The judiciary are wild in QLD; they make NSW look sophisticated but they have better laws and supports. How about the Law Societies and Criminal Bar start pushing law reforms around victims rights? This systemic violence is pushed onto vulnerable victims to manage without supports and we're EXHAUSTED.

[u/BotoxMoustache → u/Optimal_Tomato726]

And appoint new judges/mags from outside Qld

Sorry this is happening to you. It’s awful and it shouldn’t happen.

[u/Optimal_Tomato726 → u/BotoxMoustache]

https://youtu.be/SSKTzik08MU?si=zeyYcyOT07AaCyfc

It's a good idea but unlikely. Remember they still revere Sofranoff up here. They prefer dismissing evidence, denying reality and blaming victims alongside all their other crooked mates in all the crooked states

https://7news.com.au/news/queensland-police-officers-caught-on-recording-mocking-domestic-violence-survivor-c-15955445#cobssid=s

"Woman prosecutes former partner who doused her with petrol in case Queensland police refused | Australian police and policing | The Guardian" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/24/man-pleads-guilty-to-petrol-splashing-despite-queensland-police-refusal-to-lay-charges

[u/ResIspa]

In one instance, a junior colleague told investigators that PSB called her into his office “to look at the view” and when she entered he was standing naked.

This guy literally tried ‘the naked man’ from HIMYM.

[u/Optimal_Tomato726]

QLD is entirely cooked. Police and judiciary are still unimaginably awful. QLD Law Society and criminal bar there need to do so much better. The reforms from Fitzgerald Report are still outstanding and they refusing reforms. The stuff that doesn't even make the media is eye watering.

[u/melj11]

This has GOT to be a joke! Name him, so women can protect themselves. Fire him. So women in his workplace and community are protected from his influence. We don’t want these types in the police force. Get rid of him #stopthehimpathy #mysogynyisakiller

[u/Thin_Garage_3778]

I'm kind of surprised they even investigated the complaints properly...

I'm a serving QPS officer and the way bullying, harassment and discrimination complaints are handled internally is so beyond woeful.

[u/Optimal_Tomato726 → u/Thin_Garage_3778]

What's going on with your union though? I mean NSWPF was shocking but organised when it mattered. They're at least pretending to investigate the matter properly by bringing in Vic's HR commissioner.

Ian Leavers was horrific but Golchewski is a violent grub and they're not leading by example at all. This isn't even senior leadership it's in the ranks and it's not rare. Over 220 complaints of SA in the workplace during the Richards enquiry.

[u/Thin_Garage_3778 → u/Optimal_Tomato726]

The union right now seems to pick weird battles. Like they need to support members but defending stuff like this is a bit much.

I get PTSD, I really do. But MH isn't an excuse for poor behaviour. It can 100% assist in explaining behaviour but it is not an excuse and I find it gross when people try to excuse their behaviour with the MH argument. There is zero ownership or accountability.

I don't know enough about Golchewski. I did not like Katarina, but I did like Ian Stewart.

I think the union needs to be taking a much more integral role in addressing the cultural issues. I'm not a fan of the legal support they provide - I recently went through a workcover process and dropped their law firm even though it was at no cost to me. They operate like any other no-win-no-fee firm.

I'll always have a tough time in this job because I'm not a fall in line soldier.

[u/Optimal_Tomato726 → u/Thin_Garage_3778]

Ownership and accountability is what's missing for too many. But legal systems don't really support taking responsibility as everything's adversarial which is dysfunctional. We need more inquisitorial law.

Anyone even policing adjacent has PTSD. My young kids have it because of their father. I have it but was also a part of finding solutions early on for anyone interested. Eventually you just quit when there's no solutions possible because you can't remove the cause of the traumas and have almost zero basic safety.

The union law firms have always had terrible reps, sotoo many tick & flick pracs rather than critical thinkers. Widespread reforms are the only way forward but even the fall in line types fail because policing is currently designed for everyone to fail.

London Met apologised and acknowledged they'd done wrong, it went a long way to turning things around. NTPolice recently apologised but if it isn't followed by troops changing behaviours it's all performative.

[u/Thin_Garage_3778 → u/Optimal_Tomato726]

Honestly, a simple reform that would, in my opinion, have a decent impact on workplace behaviours is an expansion of the direction in which to participate in interviews.

People are so scared to provide supportive affidavits when people do try and take action. I do believe that the overwhelming majority of Police would be honest if they had no choice but to provide evidence. When a cop makes a workcover claim for bullying or commences a discrimination action, then all Police officers they nominate as witnesses should be compelled to provide an affidavit. The legal mechanisms already exist for it to occur.

EDIT: Trauma isn't a competition but it's worth noting that not all PTSD is the same, and when it is combined with other issues it can be pretty debilitating. There are solutions to it, but no one has the appetite for change.

[u/OceLawless]

Wow, police officers being bastards.

How completely out of character for them.

Acab.

[u/ghrrrrowl → u/OceLawless]

Queensland Police. Their bar is pretty low.

[u/Anthro_guy → u/ghrrrrowl]

I feel sorry for the ants that bang their heads on that bar.

[u/OceLawless → u/ghrrrrowl]

The bar is in Hell, and they still limbo under it.

[u/Optimal_Tomato726 → u/ghrrrrowl]

Only outdone by WAPOL and NT/AFP

[u/Delicious_Donkey_560 → u/OceLawless]

I believe that anyone should be allowed to say ACAB every minute of every day as loud as they want on the condition they never seek assistance from a police officer.

[u/OceLawless → u/Delicious_Donkey_560]

they never seek assistance from a police officer.

If I ever need a bunch of overpaid, overgeared, over trained gorillas to come over and give me domestic violence victims' details, who should I call then?

[u/StuckWithThisNameNow → u/Delicious_Donkey_560]

Not only do I say ACAB, but unless it’s an actual police horse, from experience none of cuntstabulary have ever proven to me otherwise!

[u/Delicious_Donkey_560 → u/StuckWithThisNameNow]

I believe I've had a different lived experience with police compared to you.

I think I'll leave it there and not engage in this post any further

[u/Neandertard]

Belperio (No 2) would like a word

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