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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Smee

‘You people’: second-top cop accused of racialised language towards Queensland First Nations leaders

Queensland deputy police commissioner Steve Gollschewski
Queensland deputy police commissioner Steve Gollschewski has been accused of being disrespectful to members of a First Nations advisory body but QPS says there was no intention to cause offence. Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

First Nations leaders claim Queensland’s second-most senior police officer became angry and aggressive during a meeting with them, pointing his finger at a senior elder and saying “you people” don’t run the organisation.

Amid wider claims of serious and systemic racism levelled at the Queensland police service (QPS) at a state inquiry, the relationship between the organisation and its formal First Nations advisory body appears to have substantially broken down.

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