Investigation Arista: A report concerning the investigation into the Queensland Police Service’s 50/50 gender equity recruitment strategy
- Report length
- 66 pages
Summary
The report's own summary: Executive summary, pages 10 to 11
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Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Commission investigated allegations that police recruitment had been manipulated through dishonesty and discrimination to meet a target of equal female and male intakes.
The CCC concluded that police used discriminatory recruitment practices between December 2015 and around October 2018, selecting women ahead of men who performed better in entry assessments.
The CCC also found misleading recruitment reporting and a failure by senior executives to question how the target was being achieved.
The CCC concluded that the evidence did not support criminal action against anyone arising from the investigation.
It recommended disciplinary action for some people of interest and planned tribunal proceedings seeking corruption findings against one or more others.
Its further recommendations cover recruitment standards, staff training, recordkeeping, leadership, truthful reporting and investigation of complaints.
Investigation Arista: A report concerning the investigation into the Queensland Police Service’s 50/50 gender equity recruitment, page 54 · Investigation Arista: A report concerning the investigation into the Queensland Police Service’s 50/50 gender equity recruitment, page 55
In the body's own words
- Conclusion
The CCC’s investigation has revealed ample evidence to support the conclusion that in striving to achieve that target, during the period December 2015 to around October 2018, the QPS engaged in discriminatory recruitment practices to achieve the 50% female recruitment target.
- Finding
The CCC investigation also revealed a recurring pattern of misleading, deceptive and false reporting practices in relation to recruitment.
- Conclusion
The CCC concluded there was insufficient evidence to support criminal action against any person arising out of this investigation.
Findings and recommendations
Allegations are not findings. A commission's finding or opinion of corrupt conduct or misconduct is not a finding that a person is guilty of a criminal offence, and the commissions say so in their reports.
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Published responses
No published response was found.
Coverage
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- Reports from 1991 to about 2011 are listed on the CCC site but many pages link no report document; those records carry the page summary only, with findings and recommendations not extracted.
- Scanned reports without a text layer are not OCR'd; their findings and recommendations are not extracted.
- Findings and opinions are not extracted except where a report states it makes no finding about any person (section 48B of the Crime and Corruption Act 2001). Pre-2025 reports state outcomes in narrative form, which is not converted into findings.
- Recommendations are extracted only from a complete numbered run; reports that number recommendations differently, or set them inside narrative chapters only, are marked not_extracted.
- Government responses are recorded where the CCC report or public hearing page links one; the responses themselves (often Queensland Parliament tabled papers or ministerial statements) are linked, not fetched.
- The 1989 Fitzgerald Inquiry report, which the CCC hosts, is a commission of inquiry report and is not included here.