Miles government focused on criminal ‘prevention and intervention’

Queensland Premier Steven Miles has acknowledged the removal of "detention as a last result" is not his government’s intention. Mr Miles says experts and evidence “tell us that could make this worse”. “Criminalising low-level offenders, putting them in with higher-level offenders, more violent offenders, older offenders, offenders who might already be in gangs – leads to more crimes. “Our focus is on this prevention and intervention work and using the intelligence that people have to intervene as early as possible to stop offending from escalating, to stop as many crimes from occurring as possible. “I know what advice I have right now, we always take the advice of our police and the advice of the evidence and that’s what we’re basing our decisions on – we have evidence that this high-intensity visible policing works and so we’re doing more on it.”