Domestic violence case management is not the “core business” of policing, and other agencies should take on greater roles in this, Queensland’s acting police commissioner says. Women’s Legal Service CEO, Nadia Bromley, said the state had recently banned coercive control, an acknowledgment that domestic violence was considered a serious crime. “We know that domestic violence makes up a significant amount of the violent crime committed in Queensland,” she said. The response needs to be 24/7 and unless the agency responsible for responding to domestic violence is available then, then people won’t get the safety they need. “We need to build that capacity.”The government recently introduced legislation into parliament to reduce the paperwork burden on police responding to domestic violence incidents.