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Queensland police commissioner unconvinced by calls for women’s police stations

An expert in family violence prevention believes women-only police stations could help lower Queensland’s alarming levels of domestic abuse, but she says her message is not being heard.
Key points:
- Women-only police stations in Argentina are credited with encouraging women to report crime
- QUT Professor Kerry Carrington says the same approach is needed in Queensland
- Commissioner Katarina Carroll says more evidence is needed before any trial is approved
Professor Kerry Carrington, from the Queensland University of Technology’s Centre for Justice said “we’re going backwards, we’re not going forwards — we really need to do something different”.
“We need to do something big.”
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