High Risk Teams
High Risk Teams (HRTs) are a core component of Queensland’s integrated service response approach.
HRTs are coordinated, multi-agency teams that collaborate to provide integrated, holistic, culturally appropriate safety responses for victims and their children who are at high risk of serious harm or lethality.
HRTs consist of officers from agencies with a role in keeping victims safe and holding perpetrators to account, including:
- specialist DFV services
- police
- health
- corrections
- housing
- courts
- child safety
- youth justice
- Victim Assist Queensland.
There are currently 10 HRTs across Queensland:
- Brisbane
- Caboolture
- Cairns
- Ipswich
- Logan/Beenleigh
- Mackay
- Mount Isa/Gulf
- Redlands
- South Burnett
- Townsville.
As part of the Queensland Government response to the Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce recommendations, the Queensland Government committed to expanding HRTs to 3 new sites, including Townsville in 2023, Redlands in 2024 and Rockhampton in 2025.