A senior constable from the South Eastern Region has been stood down from official duty with the Queensland Police Service. The 29-year-old male officer is the subject of an investigation relating to use of excessive force in four separate incidents between September 2014 and January 2015. In keeping with our commitment to high […]
Police are looking for a group of people responsible for a home burglaries and car thefts in the Cairns area. Overnight, four vehicles were stolen from Port Douglas through to East Trinity (near Yarrabah). Two vehicles, a Suzuki swift sedan and a beige Audi A4 sedan, were involved in several traffic incidents in Cairns. The […]
Today Police Commissioner Ian Stewart and Police, Fire and Emergency Services Minister Jo-Ann Miller announced an increase to our ability to conduct roadside drug testing. In December 2014 the Road Policing Command commenced the Statewide Roadside Drug Testing Deployment Project to increase the QPS’ ability to perform the tests. Commissioner Stewart said the project has been […]
Deception Bay Road Policing Unit had a wild run in with the slippery and snappy kind after intercepting a speeding vehicle at Deception Bay last night. At around 10pm, two male officers pulled over the vehicle on the Deception Bay Road on-ramp to the Bruce Highway and searched the vehicle where they discovered four stow-aways. […]
Detectives from the Gold Coast CPIU have made a further arrest in relation to an incident where a woman was allegedly assaulted and stabbed in the back following an altercation at Mermaid Beach on February 11, 2015. It is alleged a group of young people were loitering in the pool area and damaging property by […]
Commissioner Ian Stewart has co-signed an open letter with the Police Ethnic Advisory Group. Peter Forday (Chair), Sultan Dean (Deputy Chair) and Kevin Cocks (Commissioner, Anti Discrimination Commission Queensland) are the co-signers and the letter reaffirms the groups commitment to the Queensland Community to reject all violence, particularly that which is based on physical appearance, racial […]
Police from the Toowoomba Criminal Investigation Branch and the Homicide Investigation Group from State Crime Command continue investigations into the death of three people at Biddeston yesterday evening. Police attended a Biddeston Southbrook Road address around 6.50pm after the bodies of a man, woman and boy were located. The three aged 52, 27 and 7 respectively, […]
Police are investigating following the armed robbery of a service station in Drayton last night. Around 8.00pm, a man armed with a gun entered the service station on Brisbane Street and demanded cash and cigarettes from the male shop attendant. The attendant complied and the man fled with a quantity of cash and cigarettes. No […]
Police are investigating the attempted armed robbery of a convenience store in Gympie last night. At about 10.15pm a man has entered the store on Hyne Street and walked up to the counter, produced a knife, threatened the shop attendant and made demands for money. The attendant has refused his request and activated an alarm. […]
Detectives are investigating the robbery of a hotel in Woolloongabba yesterday afternoon. Just after 4pm, a man has threatened bar staff at the hotel on Stanley Street East and has then taken a sum of money. The man has then left the hotel and was seen leaving in a silver Holden Rodeo single cab utility. […]