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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