AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A police inspector who advised a church body charged with handling reports of child abuse did not see it as her role to pass on information to her superiors.
The Police Integrity Commission (PIC) was today questioning Inspector Beth Cullen about her role on the Catholic Church’s Professional Standards Resource Group (PSRG) – a body set up to help funnel information about sex abuse cases to the police.
Using a system called ‘blind reporting’, the information about abuse incidents would be given to police without victims’ details. In some cases the blind report said the victim did not want police involvement when in fact they did.
Insp Cullen, who attended the monthly PSRG meetings for six years, said she didn’t see it as her role to pass each abuse case to police.
‘My role wasn’t as a police liaison officer or conduit of information to police,’ she told the hearing in Sydney.
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