A Queensland police officer cannot claim the privilege against self-incrimination to refuse to answer questions in a QPS disciplinary interview, even where the answers might also expose the officer to criminal prosecution. The QPS regulatory scheme impliedly abrogates the privilege by necessary implication. However, answers compelled in disciplinary interviews are likely inadmissible in subsequent criminal proceedings, though this was not authoritatively decided. The approach in Baff v Commissioner of Police (NSW) confining Morris to penalty privilege was rejected.
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