When sentencing a child offender for grievous bodily harm to a police officer in the execution of duty, the sentencing court must give due recognition to the community interest in protecting police officers and the severity of the harm inflicted, alongside the youth justice principles of rehabilitation and minimum detention. A detention order under the Youth Justice Act 1992 (Qld) is not a 'term of imprisonment' for the purposes of s 3(2) of the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986 (Qld), so the exclusion for sentences exceeding 30 months does not apply to child detention orders, and the conviction will become spent after five years.
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