Queensland anti-corruption commission investigated just 20 of more than 6,000 complaints in a year

Statistics showed there is ‘almost no chance’ a complaint made against a government department like the police would be investigated independently, expert says

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Queensland’s anti-corruption commission has investigated just 20 of more than 6,000 complaints of suspected corruption in the past year, as the state government comes under renewed pressure to implement a years-late recommendation to end the practice of police investigating police.

The statistic was revealed in Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Commission’s annual report, tabled in state parliament on Friday afternoon.