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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Eden Gillespie

Katarina Carroll stands down as Queensland police commissioner amid state’s heated youth crime debate

Queensland police commissioner Katarina Carroll will finish up in the role on 1 March after resigning to the police minister, Mark Ryan, on Tuesday.
Queensland police commissioner Katarina Carroll will finish up in the role on 1 March after resigning to the police minister, Mark Ryan, on Tuesday. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

Queensland’s police commissioner, Katarina Carroll, has announced she will step down from the role early following years of increasing pressure over youth crime and the service’s response to domestic violence.

Carroll met with the state’s police minister, Mark Ryan, on Tuesday, less than three weeks after the stabbing death of Vyleen White in front of her granddaughter at Redbank Plains prompted renewed debate in Queensland about youth crime.

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