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“It is the darkest period, certainly in my 25 years,” the officer said.
“10 years ago it would be unheard of to start a shift and have one job waiting. Now I log on and there’s sometimes 80 to 100 calls waiting.”

The Bulletin has obtained multiple leaked screenshots from the internal police computer aided dispatch system (CAD) which shows the extreme demand on the frontline. In an example this month, there were 92 active police jobs across the Gold Coast and less than a dozen crews rostered. All police were tied up at a small number of jobs, including several serious domestic violence incidents. More than 60 calls for help were left waiting, with no officers available to attend. According to the leaked screenshots collected over several weeks, this is example is not an isolated incident.
“We have to do better at prioritising the genuine domestic violence from the cases of lazy parenting, vexatious complaints, and the like.
“It is burning our people out – we can’t continue to go from DV to DV. As officers have expressed in your survey, that is a huge reason why we can’t retain people.”
The whistleblower also believed QPS needed to address a growing divide between rank-and-file and upper management.
“We have become a service that prioritises keeping politicians happy over protecting our people. It has to stop.
“If we can’t find the autonomy and independence as a service to say ‘actually minister you haven’t given us the police we need’ then things will continue in a terminal decline.”