Police Minister Bill Byrne and Superintendent Dale Pointon today announced an increase in the number of Queensland Police Service (QPS) vehicles equipped with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) to enhance road safety and security on Queensland roads. QPS began trialling ANPR technology in 2012 to boost road policing enforcement. Since then, ANPR devices have monitored more than […]
Detectives are investigating after the discovery of a hydroponics set-up in a house at Bundamba yesterday. Around 3.45pm police were conducting inquiries at an unsecured address on Tibbits Street, Bundamba. Police entered the residence where they located five rooms being used primarily for hydroponic cannabis production and an indication of the stealing of power from […]
Police have taken a 29-year-old man into custody following a series of incidents spanning from Birkdale, Brisbane and concluding at Cattos Road, Helidon this morning. At around 2.30am a man attended a service station on Birkdale Road and stole a bread truck. He later dumped that vehicle in Warana Court, Boronia Heights before entering a […]
Police are investigating a fatal, single vehicle traffic crash that occurred at Bilyana this morning, 20 kilometres north of Cardwell. Preliminary information suggests the vehicle was travelling north on the Bruce Highway when it veered off the road and into bushland before colliding with a pole. The 55-year-old male driver and sole occupant of the […]
The 13-year-old boy reported missing from Harristown has now been located safe and well. Police would like to thank the media and public for their assistance.
A 17-year-old woman critically injured in a traffic crash at Dimbulah on August 3 has passed away this morning in hospital. Around 7.20pm, two vehicles collided head-on on the Burke Developmental Road. The 17-year-old woman from Dimbulah was the sole occupant of one vehicle, and was transported to the Townsville Hospital in a critical condition. […]
Queenslanders are being invited to speak up for road safety this August as part of Road Safety Week. It is Australia’s only statewide initiative to encourage the community to be directly involved in making our roads safer. Main Roads and Road Safety Minister Mark Bailey said the focus of the week, being held 22 – […]
Logan police are investigating a series of incidents that started in Birkdale and ended in Boronia Heights early this morning. Preliminary investigations suggest that around 2.30am a man attended a service station on Birkdale Road in Birkdale, and attempted to steal a bread truck. The man pushed the 32-year-old male driver out of the driver’s […]
Police are investigating the armed robbery of a Mount Gravatt service station last night. Around 10.36pm two youths, armed with a broken glass bottle and a knife, entered the Logan Road business and approached the counter. The pair then threatened the 32-year-old male attendant before demanding cash and cigarettes. One of the youths held a […]
Police are seeking public assistance to locate a driver that was driving erratically this evening on the Gateway Motorway at Boondall. Around 7.30pm, a white or silver Holden Colorado ute was observed driving on the Gateway Motorway in the north bound lanes. The driver of this vehicle was driving erratically and as a result of […]