Queensland regulation enforcement workers accused of selling home violence sufferer’s personalised data and info to ex-lover | Queensland

A Queensland regulation enforcement personnel has been suspended and faces prison prices for allegedly advertising the personalised info of a home violence sufferer to a former partner, who was later accused of stalking.

The police employee, a 46-year-old lady from the Queensland freeway policing command, will confront court docket docket on Friday.

In a press release on Thursday, the Queensland regulation enforcement service said the personnel skilled been suspended and charged with one explicit rely of stalking and 4 counts of laptop computer or laptop hacking.

“Between 2021 and 2023 the workers allegedly accessed particulars on the Queensland Regulation enforcement Service course of and launched the data and info to a home violence respondent (a person or lady subject material to the situations of a home violence safety buy).

“The DV respondent has then used the info to stalk a DV aggrieved.

“It is going to be additional extra alleged the DV respondent compensated the subject material member for the info.

“The personnel has been suspended from the QPS and isn’t at current within the workplace.”

The Queensland police firm has confronted a reckoning in present a very long time in relation to cultural difficulties and the process of home and family members violence victims.

Significantly of the momentum for a payment of inquiry into these cultural difficulties got here from the case of the earlier senior sergeant Neil Punchard, who leaked the specifics of an abuse goal to her violent earlier associate.

Punchard was initially disciplined by the QPS, however not sacked or billed. It was solely quickly after public strain – and a advertising marketing campaign from the sufferer, Julie* – that Punchard was finally convicted of 9 counts of laptop hacking and compelled out of the QPS.

Julie additionally fought a prolonged struggle with police for cost.