Racism, rapes and the increasing pressure on Queensland’s police commissioner

Queensland police commissioner Katarina Carroll told the inquiry on Thursday that the stories relayed by the Indigenous and multicultural officers had caused her ‘grave concern’. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

For most of the past few days, the Queensland police commissioner, Katarina Carroll, sat listening inside Brisbane’s courtroom 34.

Carroll had been called to give evidence at the state inquiry into police responses to domestic violence. As she swivelled on her chair in the witness box, the evidence was mostly given to her.