The former officer in charge of the Queensland police domestic violence unit says decades of “Band-Aid” and “patchwork” reforms have clearly failed to protect vulnerable women, amid growing calls for a royal commission to examine repeated police failures.
Last week, an inquest heard how a desperate Logan woman, Doreen Langham, contacted police 20 separate times and was “basically told to go away and don’t come back” in the days before she was killed by her former partner.
