Forensic Crash Unit officers are investigating a fatal traffic crash that occurred in the early hours of this morning on the Bruce Highway. Initial inquiries reveal at about 2.45am a car travelling north on the highway approximately 5km north of Mount Larcom, may have collided with a pipe on the road and burst into flames. […]
The emergent situation declared at Heatley has been revoked at 1.28am following the controlled detonation of the suspicious item early this morning. Specialist police from the Explosive Ordinance Response Team conducted the controlled detonation of the item at 12:50am. The declaration under the Public Safety Preservation Act had been made yesterday afternoon at 5.45pm after […]
Police have charged two boys after a disturbance on Burrendong Road at Coombabah today. It will be alleged around 1:25pm a 67-year-old man was punched and then struck in the head with a pick handle before a 62-year-old woman was struck in the arm with the handle after a verbal altercation. The man and woman […]
Townsville Police have Police have declared an emergent situation under the Public Safety Preservation Act at Heatley. The declaration was made around 5.45pm in relation to a suspicious item that was located in a car park on Fulham Road, Heatley at 11.30 this morning. Fulham Road, Mill Drive, Finerty Street and Lindeman Avenue are closed […]
Police are appealing for information in relation to a break and enter on Roma Street last month. Around 9.30pm on November 28th a man broke into a room at an Upper Roma Street hotel and stole a phone. No one was injured as a result of the incident. Police have released an image of a […]
Townsville Police have closed roads and set up an exclusion zone after a suspicious item was located at Heatley this morning. Around 11.30am police received a report of a suspicious box located in a swimming pool car park on Fulhum Road. Officers attended the scene and set up an exclusion zone a short time later. […]
Police and Griffith University researchers have entered into a Christmas phase of the ‘Smart Start’ project. The ‘Smart Start’ project is a Queensland Police Service and Griffith University initiative that targets pre-loading and alcohol harm by voluntarily breath testing people as they enter entertainment precincts in the Brisbane’s CBD. So far, Police and researchers have […]
Police Commissioner Ian Stewart and the Member for Lytton Neil Symes have congratulated Queensland Police officers and staff who today received medals and awards in recognition of their outstanding service. Mr Symes, representing the Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Services Jack Dempsey, presented eight officers with the National Police Service Medal, in recognition of […]
A man allegedly fleeing from a crashed stolen car at Glenvale last night was apprehended, after being tracked by a police dog in Toowoomba last night. Around 10.30pm the vehicle crashed on Greenwattle Street where the man fled the scene on foot. The man was tracked to a yard in Barambah Court where he was […]
‘Braking The Cycle’ collected its fourth Australian Road Safety Award on Tuesday night, having been successful in 2012 and 2013. The program has also previously won three State Road Safety Awards. Braking the Cycle is a Learner Driver Mentor Program developed by PCYC with Government support which provides local disadvantaged youth the opportunity to obtain […]