The Bruce Highway is blocked in both directions following a fatal traffic crash south of Maryborough. Police and emergency services were called to the scene approximately 6 kilometres north of Tiaro at 3:15pm following reports of a multi-vehicle crash involving at least 4 vehicles. The Bruce Highway is currently closed in both directions and is […]
Polair has helped police track down several stolen vehicles allegedly driven dangerously in separate incidents across the South East over the Easter long weekend. In the first incident, local police were patrolling in Riverview when they allegedly observed a stolen Toyota Corolla around 11.40pm on Friday night. When the crew attempted to intercept the vehicle […]
Police are seeking public assistance to help identify a man after a police officer was assaulted in Kelvin Grove overnight. The 44-year-old senior sergeant was patrolling on Kelvin Grove Road at 11.10pm when he noticed a man walking in the path of traffic. The officer intercepted the man and proceeded to speak to him near Musk […]
Extra police are out in force today across Queensland road networks as motorists travel home on the last day of the Easter long weekend. More than 3,700 motorists were detected speeding on Easter Sunday including a motorcyclist who was allegedly travelling at 183km/h in a 100km/h zone on the Sunshine Motorway. A 25-year-old Wellesley Island […]
A declaration under the Public Safety Preservation Act has been revoked in Surfers Paradise. The initial declaration was made at 2.20am and it was revoked at 3.55am when a man in a unit on Ferny Avenue was taken into custody. Roads around the area are now re-opening and police investigations into the incident are continuing. […]
Police have declared an emergency situation following an incident early this morning in Surfers Paradise. A declaration was made under the Public Safety Preservation Act at 2.20am due to a man in an apartment on Ferny Avenue making threats. Police have blocked the area surrounded by Elkhorn Avenue, Ferny Avenue, Surfers Paradise Boulevard and Cavil […]
Police have charged a man following a fire that occurred at a unit in Caboolture this afternoon. Officers were called to a unit on Pumicestone Road at 4.20pm after a man allegedly set fire to a number of items inside the unit. The fire was contained to the one unit and the inside suffered significant […]
Police are appealing for information from the public in relation to a serious traffic crash in Eight Mile Plains last night. Initial investigations suggest around 6.45pm, a grey Holden Captiva was attempting to turn right from Chester Road when it was struck by a white Holden Commodore travelling south on Warrigal Road. As a result […]
The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating a serious traffic crash in which a police vehicle was struck on the Pacific Motorway at Upper Mount Gravatt this afternoon. Initial information indicates around 12.10pm a marked police vehicle had attended a broken down vehicle in the right southbound lane of the motorway between the Klump Road and […]
Detectives from Rockhampton Criminal Investigation Branch have charged two teenage boys and a 21-year-old woman over the alleged break in of an elderly man’s home in West Rockhampton over the weekend. It will be alleged the boys, aged 14 and 16, and woman forced entry to the Boreham Street house around 12.30am Saturday, April 15. […]