‘Fear of speaking out’: Queensland police officer’s sexual assaults went unreported for years, inquiry told

Counsel assisting the inquiry Ruth O'Gorman KC suggests system is stacked against female victims'

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A Queensland senior sergeant who was found by an internal police investigation to have committed nine sexual assaults of junior female officers engaged in unchecked problematic conduct for 16 years due to a culture that discouraged complaints, an inquiry has heard.

The commission of inquiry into Queensland police responses to domestic violence heard the man's conduct included touching the breasts of a female subordinate, and following another into a toilet and suggesting he had come for a blowjob".

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