Almost 105,000 people access site since launch on NYE
Nearly 105,000 Queenslanders have accessed the state’s child sex offender register since it went live last week, Police Minister Dan Purdie announced on Sunday.
The recording, known as Daniel’s Law after the murder of Sunshine Coast student Daniel Morcombe, was released on New Year’s Eve.
In this document, photographs of dangerous child sex offenders were made available to the public under strict access rules.
Police Minister Dan Purdie said people were mostly using the log book wisely.Credit: Catherine Strohfeldt
Speaking at Queensland Police headquarters on Sunday, Purdie said there was no “tier 1” (lack of reportable offenders) anywhere in the state.
He said there were almost 22,000 completed “tier 2” applications for locality-based searches, allowing Queenslanders to learn about high-risk offenders in their area, and 60 “tier 3” applications were completed.
“These are applications that a parent and carer can make to the police to find out whether someone who has unsupervised access to their child is a registered child sex offender,” he said.
Acting Police Commissioner Cheryl Scanlon said out of 60 tier 3 applications there were four “hits” of a reportable offender someone was considering allowing their children to contact.
“There is no criminal activity identified by any of these individuals (reportable offenders), but it was great for us to be able to reach out to these families, connect with them, implement preventive strategies and reassure them,” he said.
But all was not well.
