The Criminal Justice Commission
A Political Football?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1321816600001495Keywords:
Queensland Fitzgerald Inquiry, police misconduct, corruption, police accountability processesAbstract
Queensland's Fitzgerald Inquiry was expected to last six weeks. It ran for two years (1987–1989). The inquiry was established to look at suspected police misconduct. It ended up exposing vertical corruption and widespread abuse of power in the Police Force; a less than arms-length relationship between police and the National Party government which contributed to the lack of effective police accountability processes; other official misconduct by non-police public servants; and political dishonesty and corruption.
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