Commissioner Katarina Carroll has today announced the appointment of Debbie Platz as an assistant commissioner of the Queensland Police Service (QPS). Assistant Commissioner Platz is a former member of the QPS and more recently an assistant commissioner with the Australian Federal Police. Following the recent appointments, Commissioner Carroll also announced the placement and rotation of […]
An 80-year-old man from The Gap has died in a four-vehicle traffic crash in Murarrie this morning. At 10.45am, the man’s car, a Hyundai Accent and a Prime Mover collided at the intersection of Lytton Road and Creek Road. The force of the collision pushed the man’s car into two other vehicles, a Toyota Yaris […]
Police have charged a man in relation to an emergency declaration made under the Public Safety Preservation Act (PSPA) in Garbutt on February 25. Around 10am last Thursday, police were called to an address in Clarke Street following reports of an armed man making threats. Officers attended the scene and established a cordon of the […]
Update: The driver of the vehicle involved has been located. Police are appealing for the driver of a ute to come forward after unsecure solar panels narrowly missed another motorist travelling on the Gateway Motorway this morning. A dark coloured ute towing a box trailer was heading south when the panels came loose at Bracken […]
Police have released CCTV from the armed robbery of a bottle shop at Labrador around 9pm on Monday night. During the robbery two males attended the Marine Parade premises. One male entered the store and produced a knife before stealing a cash drawer. The offender walks across carpark to the second male who is holding […]
Sunshine Coast police conducted an overnight operation as part of Operation Tango Anaconda, targeting drug driving across Queensland. A total of 726 vehicles were intercepted as police diverted all northbound motorists off the Bruce Highway near the Glass House Mountains between 9pm last night and 1am this morning. Twenty random drug tests were conducted with […]