Far North police continue to target high risk priority domestic and family violence offenders with Cairns detectives charging a 34-year-old man yesterday. Police will allege the man forced entry to a unit in Manoora around 6.30pm on Sunday (March 14), before threatening a woman and demanding car keys. Police allege the man also contravened a […]
A $250,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of any person responsible for the murder of 32-year-old Omega Ruston on the Gold Coast in 2009 has been announced today. Minister for Police and Corrective Services and Fire and Emergency Services, Mark Ryan, approved the reward following an extensive review of the investigation by the […]
A 36-year-old Palm Island man has been charged with multiple offences after allegedly crashing into a police vehicle before attempting to run from the scene. Around 4.20pm yesterday police attended a residence on Eyre Street after a reported stolen vehicle was located in a carpark of a residential complex. As police arrived the car allegedly […]
Update: Police have located the missing 59-year-old man reported missing from Everton Park safe and well. Police would like to thank members of the community and the media for their assistance. Previous media release:Police have commenced a search and rescue operation to help locate a 59-year-old man reported missing from Everton Park since Sunday (March […]
Police are investigating a suspicious shed fire at Park Ridge which occurred late last night. At 11.30pm, emergency services were called to a property on Koplick Road where a shed containing rubber tyres was well alight. The fire has created a thick, toxic smoke which is moving towards East Beaumont Road. Residents of the area, […]
Located safe and well. Police are seeking public assistance to help locate a 40-year-old woman missing from Deception Bay. She was last seen in Bronzewing Crescent around 3pm today and has not had contact with family since. She is described as Caucasian, 170cm tall of solid build with brown hair and brown eyes. Police are […]
Minister for Police and Corrective Services and Minister for Fire and Emergency Services, Mark Ryan, Minister for Health and Ambulance Services and Member for Redcliffe, Yvette D’Ath, and Member for Bancroft, Chris Whiting, today joined Superintendent John Hallam to open a Queensland Police Service (QPS) summit focused on youth crime prevention in North Lakes. The […]
Detectives from the Organised Crime Gangs Group have charged a 26-year-old man in relation to a violent disturbance at a Canungra food store last month. On February 23, two men attended a food store and threatened and assaulted a random group of men. It is alleged one of the men was armed with a machete […]
To celebrate Harmony Week and to embrace our members’ cultural, linguistic, religious and spiritual diversity, this week, we will be looking at members of the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) community within the Service. Introducing Senior Police Liaison Officer Li-Shan Huang Senior Police Liaison Officer (PLO) Huang; known by friends and close colleagues as Purdy […]
A 37-year-old man has tonight been charged following an alleged domestic violence incident at Upper Coomera on March 15 and two subsequent emergency declarations under the Public Safety Preservation Act (PSPA) yesterday and today. At 4.06pm today, police made an emergency declaration under the PSPA at Baloo Street, where they arrested a man soon after. […]