Shortcut: Inside Historical QLD Cases with a Police Veteran
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.
This is part one of a two part episode with our guest, Kate Pausina.
Kate Pausina is a 23 year veteran of the Queensland Police Service.
In the second instalment of this two part episode, Kate will tell us about the negatives of her time with the cops experiences that led her to lodge a formal complaint in 2018 and more recently to contribute a chapter to a book entitled When Cops Are Criminals.
But in this instalment, Kate revisits the experiences during her time in the Coronial Support Unit that made her love policing and made it so hard for her to walk away.
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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram
Guest: Kate Pausina
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| 0:00.0 | Our guest today is Kate Porcina, a 23-year veteran of the Queensland Police Service. |
| 0:11.0 | Kate joined the QPS in the wake of the Fitzgerald inquiry into corruption in the police and the Biocu-Peterserson State Government, which concluded in 1989. |
| 0:21.5 | As a result of the inquiry, there were a number of high-profile convictions, |
| 0:25.5 | including that of the former police commissioner, Terry Lewis, who was sentenced to 14 years |
| 0:30.5 | in prison and stripped of his knighthood. At the conclusion of the inquiry, |
| 0:35.0 | Queensland was promised significant structural changes, |
| 0:38.3 | fostering greater transparency and accountability in government and law enforcement. |
| 0:43.3 | In the second installment of this two-part episode, Kate will tell us about the negatives of her time with the QPS, |
| 0:49.3 | experiences that led her to lodge a formal complaint in 2018 and more recently to contribute a chapter |
| 0:56.1 | to a book entitled When Cops Are Criminals. But in this instalment, Kate revisits the good |
| 1:02.9 | times, the experiences that made her love policing and made it so hard for her to walk away. |
| 1:09.6 | One of her cases is particularly close to my home and |
| 1:12.5 | heart, the murdered nurses of Toowoomba, and that's all coming up on Australian True Crime. |
| 1:18.6 | We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created, the |
| 1:23.5 | Wurundri Woi Wurang people of the Koolin Nation. And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence. |
| 1:37.1 | Cross, the new series only on Prime Video. |
| 1:41.7 | You're going to be part of a masterpiece. |
| 1:43.8 | Evil knows his name. |
| 1:46.1 | Detective Alex Cross. |
| 1:48.4 | Where he lives. |
| 1:50.4 | It was in my house. |
| 1:51.9 | His darkest secret. |
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