TOUGHER PENALTIES FOR OFFENDERS
The State Government continues to implement tougher legislation to help protect Queenslanders.
For too long sentencing has not matched community expectation. We have -
- Doubled the maximum penalty for serious assault on a police officer from 7 to 14 years.
- Introduced a new offence for the murder of a police officer with a non-parole period of 25 years.
- Increased the non-parole period for murder from 15-20 years imprisonment (for a single murder) and from 20- 30 years imprisonment for multiple murders.
- Introduced tougher penalties to protect children.
- Increased the penalty for offences against children with a mental impairment from 14 years to life imprisonment.
- Increased Child exploitation material offences from 5 years to 14 years imprisonment.
- Increased penalties for Procurement of a child from 5 to 10 years imprisonment.
- Introduced tougher penalties for hoons evading police.
- Increased penalties for evading police to a mandatory $5000 and two years loss of licence.
- Introduced new laws dealing with hooning offences with the first offence incurring an impoundment for 3 months and the second offence within 5 years would have far more serious implications with the offenders vehicle being crushed or forfeited.
Information courtesy Mark Boothman MP, Member for Albert
