Fresh questions have emerged about how concerns raised by the daughter of a double murderer were handled before he took the lived of Jennifer and Gretl Petelczyc. The Premier says he is open to new solutions, which domestic violence services say are already on the table.
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00:00 In the wake of Arielle Bombara revealing she'd tried to warn police about her father, both
00:07 the Commissioner and the Department of Communities say their protocols were followed, but that
00:12 didn't prevent him killing his estranged wife's best friend Jennifer Patelchus and her daughter
00:17 Gretel.
00:18 That's an example of how we need to continue to make sure that our laws are contemporary
00:24 and meet the needs of the community.
00:26 Much of the focus has been on a new firearms act which is before the upper house.
00:31 It is not new legislation that will make any difference to those events, it's actually
00:35 action on other legislation around domestic violence, it's action on ensuring police are
00:41 adequately resourced and trained.
00:43 We can pass as many laws as we like, but if we can't administer them well then that's
00:48 not going to get to the root of the problem.
00:50 A big part of that is left up to police. The Commissioner says officers respond to 60,000
00:55 family and domestic violence reports a year, about one every six minutes.
01:00 They have to balance all these complex issues that are playing out in front of them, sometimes
01:07 in rapid time.
01:08 But do they have the time and the training to properly make those decisions?
01:13 Yes.
01:15 Issues in the broader approach to domestic violence have been brought into sharp focus
01:19 by protocols seemingly being followed but failing to prevent the tragedy in Floriant.
01:24 Domestic violence services say there needs to be a greater focus on addressing perpetrators
01:29 behaviour and intervening earlier to protect women.
01:32 And our doors are open to take more advice, more suggestions about how we can continue
01:38 to work on this issue.
01:39 Liberal leader Libby Metham has written to the Corruption and Crime Commission asking
01:43 it to investigate the handling of Arielle Bombara's concerns about her father.
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