Safety where you live with the
Making our Community Safer Plan

The LNP has the Right Plan to restore safety where you live.

The Making Our Community Safer Plan has been developed after four years of listening to Queenslanders about their experiences in Labor’s Youth Crime Crisis. Families who are scared to sleep at night after intruders invaded their homes, business owners and their staff who have lost their livelihoods when their shops were broken-into, communities who fear youth criminals are running rampant on the streets without consequences.

We have stood shoulder to shoulder with Queenslanders who have lost loved ones to crime. We have wrapped our arms around families unable to pay the bills or get to work after their cars were stolen. We have listened to frustrated small business owners who can’t afford to rebuild after repeatedly being targeted by armed thieves.

Queenslanders should feel safe in their homes, they should be safe where they work, and they should be safe in their neighbourhoods.

Queensland needs a fresh start. Our plan will restore safety where you live, making our community safer for all Queenslanders.

Our policies address every stage of the crime cycle to arrest Labor's Youth Crime Crisis.

Protection for our community underpins our plan. We will prevent crime before it happens, intervene early in young lives and rehabilitate youth criminals. That’s our commitment to Queenslanders. 

Stronger laws

The Making Queensland Safer Laws will be law by the end of this year:

• We will make Adult Crime, Adult Time law so youth offenders committing serious adult crimes will serve the same time as adults.
• We will keep dangerous youth criminals off our streets by abolishing detention as a last resort from law.
• We will strengthen sex offender laws with a public child sex offender register.
• We will keep dangerous youth criminals off our streets by allowing the Courts to consider youth offenders full criminal history when sentencing.

More enforcement

With more police on the beat to keep our streets safe:

• We will respect our police by providing them with the tools they need to keep us safe.
• We will hire more police for frontline crime work.
• We will give our police the laws they need to keep our community safe.

Victim support

Putting victims at the heart of youth justice:

• We will provide more help for victims of crime as they navigate the justice system.
• We will allow victims to attend their cases by properly opening up the Children’s Court.
• We will provide victims of serious crimes with automatic updates about their cases as justice progresses.
• We will boost domestic violence services and double the capacity of DVConnect’s Womensline and Mensline helplines to improve domestic and family violence support across Queensland.

Faster justice

Equipping our courts so victims’ cases are heard sooner:

• We will ensure crime victims’ cases aren’t delayed and are heard sooner by boosting capacity of Queensland justice services.
• We will deliver justice faster for victims of Labor’s DNA Debacle, with the best expert to oversee reform, allowing DNA samples to be retested sooner and cases heard in court earlier.

Steering kids back on track

Back into school and out of trouble:

• We will reengage kids who have fallen out of schooling and are at risk of falling into crime.
• We will help youth choose employment instead of crime, by teaching employment skills.
• We will keep kids on the right track and prevent them turning to crime by providing mentoring, life skills and community connection.
• We will prevent crime before it happens and steer kids back on track, by delivering four crime early intervention schools across the state.

Fixing our Child Safety system

Stop the broken system creating a youth crime pipeline:

• We will provide 24-hour dual-carer supervision by boosting staff numbers in Residential Care homes.
• We will boost support for vulnerable kids by increasing Child Safety officers by 20%.
• We will deliver a SecureCare facility for young people with mental health needs who are a danger to themselves or others.
• We will provide a higher-level of care for kids with disabilities and complex needs by piloting a professional foster care program.
• We will steer kids out of trouble and into tutoring, sports and music with a $1,500 increase to the yearly allowance for each child in out-of-home care.

Securing communities

With stronger safety to deter crime:

• We will prevent crime and minimise its compounding costs by upgrading security in shopping precincts and community facilities with CCTV, safety lighting or alarm systems.
• We will keep small business owners and their staff out of the crosshairs of crime by putting more police on the beat.
• We will keep vulnerable Queenslanders safe by implementing landmark domestic and family violence reform.
• We will keep kids safe from predators by strengthening and streamlining our Blue Card system and implementing recommendations this government has ignored.

Gold Standard Early Intervention

With effective community and government led programs to steer young lives away from crime: 

• We will put youth back on the right path by responding earlier to criminal behaviour, providing holistic intervention and teaching kids consequences for actions. 
• We will put pathways in place to allow courts, schools, child safety and parents to get kids the help they need, when they need it. 
• We will divert youth from crime, regardless of where they live and what their background is, with locally led early intervention in every region of the State. 
• We will bring the world’s best, research backed youth intervention models to Queensland. 
• We will stop the next generation of youth falling into crime by assessing what’s working and only investing in programs that stop crime in its tracks.
• We will drive down crime by keeping at risk teen offenders off our streets, and out of crime with two Youth Justice Schools for kids on youth justice court orders.

Putting the focus of detention back on rehabilitation

To prepare kids for the future:

• We will get youth back to school or into work after detention by shifting the focus of detention to discipline and rehabilitation through consequences for action.
• We will ensure youth don’t fall behind and have the education they need for life, by requiring all youth attend a full schedule of education programs while in detention.

Post-detention supervision

So kids don’t fall back into the same cycle of crime:

• We will give every child a 12-month individual rehabilitation program after detention.
• We will upskill young people for employment, with schooling or TAFE, driving lessons, professional mentoring, volunteering, sports and extracurriculars.
• We will help kids stay on track by bridging the gap from detention to community with personalised support.