High Risk Teams

High Risk Teams (HRTs) are a core component of Queensland’s integrated service response approach to domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV).

HRTs are coordinated, multi-agency teams that collaborate to provide integrated, holistic, culturally appropriate safety responses for victim-survivors and their children who are at high risk of serious harm or lethality.

HRTs consist of officers from agencies with a role in keeping victim-survivors safe and holding persons using violence to account, including:

• Specialist DFV Services
• Police
• Health
• Corrective Services
• Housing
• Courts
• Child safety
• Youth justice
• Victim Assist Queensland.

Members from the Department of Women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships and Multiculturalism and Department of Education may also participate.

There are 11 HRTs across Queensland:

• Brisbane
• Caboolture
• Cairns
• Capricornia District (Rockhampton and surrounds)
• Ipswich
• Logan/Beenleigh
• Mackay
• Mount Isa/Gulf
• Redlands
• South Burnett
• Townsville.

The HRT does not replace existing roles or functions of agencies in relation to domestic and family violence (DFV) responses. The DFV integrated service system statewide guide walks through the role, function and scope of Queensland's integrated service response.