There are hundreds of allegations of excessive force made against Queensland Police every year.

The state’s Crime and Corruption Commission received 648 allegations of excessive force related to police officers in 2017-18.

The potentially “serious abuse of power” numbers were revealed in the CCC’s annual report, tabled in parliament on Tuesday.

“In terms of police conduct, assault or excessive use of force continues to be one of the most common allegations made to the CCC,” the report said.

It amounts to 13 per cent of all allegations made against police.

Correction officers and protective security officers employed by Queensland Health were also subject of the complaints.

A total 999 allegations of excessive force were made, representing 11 per cent of all claims made to the commission.

The CCC has focused on police use of force since 2016 and last year expanded to include the broader public sector.

Nine per cent of all allegations against public sector workers relate to excessive force.

The CCC finalised three investigations involving alleged excessive force last year, two of which involved correctional officers.

In one of those cases, a recommendation was made to Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) for potential disciplinary action. The other was referred back to the department to investigate.

The CCC reviewed another 58 matters.

There were 14 ongoing investigations into alleged excessive force as at June 30, the majority of which involve complaints by prisoners against corrective officers.

Taskforce Flaxton was launched in March this year to examine QCS corruption.

Misusing confidential information

Queensland Police officers were responsible for almost half of all alleged misuse of private information reported to the commission.

Police were accused of the conduct 354 times last year, out of a total 762 allegations or 9 per cent of all claims made to the CCC.

It relates to public sector employees accessing private information to benefit themselves or someone else, outside of their duties.

“Queensland public sector agencies collect and store a wide range of private, confidential and sensitive information that employees use to carry out their duties,” the report said.

“Public sector agencies must ensure that such information is protected against unauthorised access, use, modification and disclosure.”

A police officer was found guilty of 23 charges, including computer hacking, in September last year.

He used a restricted access computer without consent to obtain information on other police officers, members of his family, and the former partner of his wife and associates.

The records included intelligence reports, criminal and traffic histories, domestic and family violence applications and protection orders, as well as police cautions and flags.

There was no evidence he passed the information on to anyone, but was fined $4000.

The CCC finalised 13 investigations into alleged misuse of information, resulting in 21 criminal charges against three people.

The watchdog also made 12 prevention recommendations to improve agency procedures, and review another 67 matters.

It investigated a public sector employee improperly accessing a preferred supplier list to provide advantage to a privately owned business.

Another employee released information to a spouse to benefit their employment as a real estate agent.

The CCC said it was continuing its focus on alleged data abuses due to community concern and its risks.

Corruption complaints

The commission received 3098 complaints involving 8862 allegations last year.

A total of 60 people were charged with more than 300 criminal offences in 2017-18 because of CCC investigations.

There was $9.4 million assets identified as the proceeds of crime and forfeited to the state.

Crime investigations targeted ice and the bikie activities.

The CCC, Queensland government and opposition, Queensland Police and police unions signed a Memorandum of Understanding in October last year to progress major reforms to the police discipline system.