WA assistant commissioner Duane Bell tells the inquest that officers failed to respond properly to the Aboriginal woman’s calls for helpWelfare checks performed by police at South Hedland police station on Aboriginal woman Ms Dhu were missing in “quality,” one of Western Australia’s top police officers told a coronial inquest on Thursday.
Dhu, a 22-year-aged Yamatji woman whose first name is not used for cultural reasons, or died at the Hedland Health Campus on 4 August 2014,after 43 hours in the cells at the South Hedland police station.
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Source: theguardian.com