Queensland police may have violated police manual rules when they handcuffed a child during a roadside arrest, shown in a 30-minute documentary video produced by the service.
The documentary, Policing Youth Offenders, released yesterday by the Queensland Police Service (QPS), is described as a "real and raw" insight into the challenge of youth crime in the state, but shows more than 20 images of children in handcuffs.
In one scene, during a roadside arrest, a young woman willingly gets out of what appears to be a stolen vehicle and is immediately handcuffed on the side of the road, later telling the arresting officer, "I just have really bad anxiety".
