Queensland's top cop says score cards used to rate officer performance won't set quotas for fines. Source: AAP
QUEENSLAND'S top cop says ordinary citizens have no reason to fear they'll be targeted by police when score cards are used to rate officer performance.
Police Commissioner Ian Stewart says the balanced score cards won't set quotas for officers during the bid to cut crime in the Sunshine State by 10 per cent.
"It is not a quota system and any targets we put in place are always aspirational," he told reporters on Friday.
The score cards, being trialled in several areas including the Gold Coast, log the number and types of jobs completed by police.
Civil libertarians fear they are a return to the controversial kill sheets of the 1970s and '80s, in which quotas for fines were set.
Mr Stewart says that is not the case and refutes suggestions police would be out to get ordinary Queenslanders when the system is rolled out.
"If people are going about their lawful business they have no problem with the police," he said.
"But if I was a criminal in this state ... I'd be worried.
"This is about ensuring our people perform adequately and do their job and earn their pay, just like any other business."
However, Queensland Council for Civil Liberties vice-president Terry O'Gorman says the system could lead to police abusing their powers to reach quotas.
He says there have been complaints about police abusing search powers in the wake of anti-bikie laws.
"Last year senior police indicated RBTs would be used as an opportunity to search cars for evidence of crimes other than drink-driving," Mr O'Gorman said.
"This has led to police unnecessarily searching cars and bullying and blustering innocent citizens into so-called 'consent' searches."
But Mr Stewart says the service has long rated the performance of its officers and the balanced score card system will simply improve how that is done.
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