QPS partners with Dementia Australia to lead community change

The Queensland Police Service is partnering with Dementia Australia to help increase awareness and understanding of dementia through the Dementia Australia Dementia Friends program. The QPS is the first of Australia’s policing bodies to be involved in this nation-wide initiative, with the announcement made in Brisbane on September 4 as part of Dementia Awareness Month, […]

Charges for Jimboomba woman after failing to follow animal welfare direction

In a first for the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission, a 20-year-old Jimboomba woman has been charged with failing to comply with an animal welfare direction under the Racing Integrity Act 2016. A joint QPS Queensland Racing Crime Squad (QRCS) and QRIC investigation saw officers issue an Animal Welfare Direction at the thoroughbred racing participant’s Jimboomba […]

Police urge witnesses to come forward in cold case murder, Maryborough

Detectives from the State Crime Command’s Homicide Cold Case Investigation Unit investigating the suspected murder of Gregory Armstrong are appealing for information needed to solve the case. The then 30-year-old Greg Armstrong was last seen alive in Maryborough on May 7, 1997 and was later reported missing by his landlord. Detectives have deployed to Hervey […]