{"id":1444046,"date":"2024-01-14T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/jan\/15\/police-cannot-meet-expectations-for-children-in-custody-amid-cairns-watch-house-overcrowding"},"modified":"2024-01-14T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T14:00:29","slug":"police-cannot-meet-expectations-for-children-in-custody-amid-cairns-watch-house-overcrowding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/01\/14\/police-cannot-meet-expectations-for-children-in-custody-amid-cairns-watch-house-overcrowding\/","title":{"rendered":"Police \u2018cannot meet\u2019 expectations for children in custody amid Cairns watch house overcrowding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior officer calls for help providing basic necessities to juvenile inmates, including food and toilet paper<\/p><ul><li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>A senior police officer working at the Cairns watch house says officers \u201ccannot meet\u201d basic expectations to care for children in custody \u2013 including supplying regular food and toilet paper \u2013 amid severe overcrowding in the far north Queensland lockup.<\/p><p>The Queensland government last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/aug\/23\/absolute-dog-act-queensland-labor-pilloried-for-shock-move-to-override-states-human-rights-act\">suspended the state\u2019s Human Rights Act<\/a> to allow the indefinite detention of children in adult police holding cells. The government said it was necessary to address \u201cimmediate capacity issues\u201d in the state\u2019s youth detention system.<\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/jan\/15\/police-cannot-meet-expectations-for-children-in-custody-amid-cairns-watch-house-overcrowding\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/jan\/15\/police-cannot-meet-expectations-for-children-in-custody-amid-cairns-watch-house-overcrowding\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior officer calls for help providing basic necessities to juvenile inmates, including food and toilet paperGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA senior police officer working at the Cairns watch house says office&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,13080,2674,6,1206,11436,45667,2670],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444376,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444046\/revisions\/1444376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}