Child exploitation and financial crimes have flourished in Queensland because police have focused too much on outlaw bikies, a commission of inquiry has found.

The Queensland Organised Crime Commission of Inquiry found that while members of outlaw motorcycle gangs accounted for 0.5 per cent of all crime in the state, the Queensland Police Service had 200 detectives working in the area.

Whereas at most there were five detectives on the fraud squad and no more than 10 covering the child exploitation taskforce.

The inquiry was ordered by the Palaszczuk Government in February weeks after it came to office, to respond to a public backlash against tough anti-bikie laws introduced by the previous Newman Liberal National Party government.

Commissioner Michael Byrne QC today said the inquiry had found Queensland was the "epicentre" of so-called "boiler-room" fraud that had victimised people across Australia.

This was at the same time that the fraud squad had a maximum of only five detectives, he said.

Mr Byrne also said the state was "in the upper half" of Australian states in relation to child exploitation and there was demand for increasingly depraved material.

He said it was not too simplistic to say child exploitation had gone unchecked with focus on outlaw bikies.

"It is endemic in Queensland [child exploitation]," Mr Byrne said.

"The hard figures seem to say that one area was being neglected, at the expense of another."

His recommendations include the introduction of a single category for illegal drugs to replace the tiered structure now in place.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she would consider the findings and recommendations and put them to a task force reviewing the state's anti-bikie laws.

"We absolutely need to get the balance right," Ms Palaszczuk said.

"I'm going to focus on that immediately.

"I think we all must take these findings incredibly seriously."

The Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) told the inquiry the Newman government legislation could be described as "extreme", however they have been praised by other police services in Australia and overseas.

"The heavy focus on outlaw bikies meant that the CCC lost visibility of other areas of organised crime, who are likely to have benefited from and or exploited the opportunity to stay under the law enforcement radar."

LNP blames police for allocation of resources

Shadow attorney-general Ian Walker said the LNP made no apologies for going after criminal gangs.

He blamed police for the unbalanced allocation of resources.

"We gave the police all of the resources and laws they needed to tackle criminal gangs, but all the other resources were there for them as well to tackle all sorts of crime," he said.

"The allocation of resources from one area of crime to another is a matter for the police force.

"We took their advice in respect of legislation, if they felt any of the legislation was lacking either then or now, clearly we would take that advice on board."



The Queensland Police Service (QPS) said it would carefully consider the report's findings.

"The QPS ensured the commission was fully appraised of the organised crime environment in Queensland and the service's successes and challenges in responding to the current environment, including future organised crime threats," it said in a statement.