Queensland's police commissioner Steve Gollschewski has admitted the state's police force has a "chequered past" with First Nations peoples but has told a truth-telling inquiry there is no tolerance for racism in the force today.

The final day of the hearings on Tuesday heard from seven heads of Queensland government departments, including Commissioner Gollschewski, all who admitted they had "failed" Aboriginal people "for 160 years"—in some cases, going so far as to deliberately kill them.

The hearing heard about the role of Queensland's 'native police'; a paramilitary mounted police force made up of Aboriginal people and commanded by non-Indigenous officers that inflicted violence on Indigenous people.

It is estimated up to 24,000 people were killed by these forces, and whilst Director-general of the Department of Treaty, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, Communities and the Arts, Clare O'Connor, told the inquiry there was no way of knowing exact numbers, she said the commanders of the native police "deliberately sought to terrify and intimidate Indigenous people".

"If Aboriginal people resisted being moved on, if they initiated violence against settlers or return violence then reprisals were extremely violent and disproportionate," Ms O'Connor said.

Speaking to the media after the hearings, Commissioner Gollschewski said some of the stuff that occurred was "pretty confronting".

"But what I think is really confronting for us, too, is to remember that they were acting out policies that were set by the government of the day who believed, for whatever reason, that they were doing something that was in the interest of the state," he said.

"They took actions which … we would not tolerate in any shape or form in current society. If anyone is going to exhibit any racist beliefs or comments, there are consequences. That won't be tolerated."

The submission from the Department of Justice and Attorney General's accepted that the department had been "instrumental in discriminatory practices that removed, isolated, deprived and sentenced First Nations Queenslanders".

Inquiry chair and Waanyi and Kalkadoon man and barrister, Joshua Creamer, surmised the hearing by stating: "If I could sum up what I've heard this morning it's generally from representative government that 'we failed you for 160 years in various forms.'"

"And really this might be the first opportunity, then, to create a level of accountability," Mr Creamer said.

He noted departments had been working towards reframing their relationships with Indigenous people and communities.

"The willingness to participate and support the inquiry really goes along to the basis that those departments, or those representatives, really see value in the inquiry and how it will shape the relationship with the community and government going forward," Mr Creamer said.

Commissioner Gollschewski said the QPS was committed to improving its relationship with Indigenous people, arguing that there is "more for us to learn as we go through this and research the past; we understand more and certainly going forward".

"Anything that can help heal the past and allow everyone to move on is a very good thing," he said.

Accusations of racism have dogged the Queensland Police Force (QPS), with the Call for Change: Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Responses to Domestic and Family Violence finding "clear evidence of a culture where attitudes of misogyny, sexism and racism are allowed to be expressed, and at times acted upon, largely unchecked".

In 2018, the Queensland government agreed to a $30m settlement and the delivery of a formal apology to the people of Palm Island, after the federal court found police, officers acted unlawfully and breached the Racial Discrimination Act when responding to riots over a death in custody in 2004.

Last year, Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers claimed a Treaty process would result in the justice system favouring Indigenous people, in an op-ed described as "blatantly racist," whilst the QPS has routinely failed to answer questions put to them in regards to the exact reasoning behind the removal of the entire QPS First Nations advisory body this year.

The inquiry has no more scheduled hearings with AAP reporting Mr Creamer said the inquiry hopes to hold a number of truth-telling sessions this year focussing on lived experience, as well as calling on experts and visiting communities across Queensland.