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Top cop sensationally QUITS after 45 years in the police force over speech featuring inappropriate ‘vagina’ comment: ‘It was never my intention to offend anyone’
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One of Queensland’s top cops has quit after his use of the phrase ‘vagina whisperer’ in a speech to colleagues amid an inquiry into police responses to family and domestic violence.
Deputy commissioner Paul Taylor resigned on Friday after a Commission of Inquiry found he and chief superintendent Ray Rohweder made lewd comments at police leadership conferences.
The revelations came as Queensland’s police commissioner Katarina Carroll was questioned at a Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Service Responses to Domestic and Family Violence.
She faced claims the Queensland police service has a sexist, racist and misogynistic culture amongst officers.
Deputy commissioner Paul Taylor (pictured) resigned on Friday after a Commission of Inquiry found he and chief superintendent Ray Rohweder made lewd comments at police leadership conferences
Mr Taylor used the phrase ‘vagina whisperer’ in an official speech to describe a friend of his who is a respected gynaecologist.
Chief supt. Rohweder yelled an inappropriate comment at a Master of Ceremonies at a separate event, the Courier Mail reported.
But he has not resigned.
He is understood to have yelled from the audience out to the MC, who had stitches for a facial injury, asking ‘did she shut her legs on you?’
Commissioner Carroll confirmed at the Inquiry that Chief supt. Rohweder’s also joked the officer with the stitches had been through a ‘rough promotional process’ implying he had performed oral sex on a senior female officer.
His attempts at humour led to some audience members walking out of the event.
Mr Taylor tended his resignation to commissioner Carroll after both men were identified during hearings for the Inquiry.
Commissioner Carroll told the inquiry she personally counselled Mr Taylor over his use of language.
Mr Taylor, a police officer for 45 years, was in 2020 appointed to a new role deputy commissioner for Regional Queensland, based in Townsville.
‘It was never my intention to offend anyone, and I am deeply apologetic for the harm it has caused,’ Mr Taylor said in an email to colleagues.
‘I am devastated about the impact this has had on the reputation of the service, because it does not reflect my values, nor those of the organisation.’
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