Force refuses to answer questions about legality of detaining children in watch houses following supreme court ruling that three must be moved urgently to youth detention
Police were also asked whether the service was confident it was fully compliant with the law, in relation to the ongoing detention of those children.The Cairns-based youth organisation, Youth Empowered Towards Independence, lodged a court action on Wednesday last week, seeking the transfer of several children being held on remand in state watch houses.
But the case was won without a substantive hearing on Friday, when the Queensland government conceded to orders transferring three children – those who remained in police custody – to detention centres. The government justifies extended watch house detention on the basis it is not “practicable” to transfer children when there is no available place in a detention centre.
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