Queensland police woman quits after being allegedly caught with drugs at music festival

JUST days after another death at Stereosonic, a female police officer has quit after she was allegedly found with drugs at a music festival.

A reveller is wheeled away from the Stereosonic music festival, where two people died in the space of a week. Picture: Diimex

A QUEENSLAND police officer has resigned after she was allegedly found with drugs at a music festival.

A police spokesman was unable to confirm whether the 26-year-old constable’s notice to appear for possessing dangerous drugs was issued at Sunday’s Stereosonic festival.

The officer, from the Northern Region, will face the Brisbane Magistrates Court on January 5.

She has resigned, which means she won’t face a Queensland Police disciplinary investigation.

The troubling links between music festivals and drugs has been laid bare with the deaths of two Stereosonic festival goers just days apart, and the hospitalisation of many more.

Pharmacist Sylvia Choi, 25, died after taking ecstasy at Stereosonic in Sydney.

A week later, Adelaide man Stefan Woodward, 19, died in Adelaide after being rushed to hospital from the music festival’s South Australian leg on Saturday, bringing the total number of deaths at Australian music festivals to six since last November.

Stereosonic has copped flak, including claims the dance parties are staged under a veil of secrecy.

Totem OneLove, the promoters behind Stereosonic, say that while “every effort” was made to keep revellers safe, “there is only so much we can do”.

South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon has called for an inquest into Mr Woodward’s death to find out what really goes on behind the gates.

“Any inquest needs to look at the responsibility of the organisers, the role of police and health professionals and also any warnings that should have been given,” Senator Xenophon said.

“It seems that young people are playing a form of chemical Russian roulette at an event that was awash with drugs.”

Stefan Woodward, 19, died in Adelaide.