A 48-year-old male sergeant from Brisbane Region who was stood down on April 11, 2019 has now been suspended from official duty with the Queensland Police Service. The officer has been charged with the assault of another officer whilst on duty. In keeping with our commitment to high standards of behaviour, transparency and accountability, we […]
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Police charge woman with significant fraud, Hughenden
A 56-year-old Prairie woman has today been charged with 67 fraud related charges stemming from a claim to the Queensland Government’s Drought Relief Assistance Scheme. After a lengthy investigation by investigators from the Major and Organised Crime Squad Rural (Charters Towers), the woman was charged today at Hughenden with one count of fraud, two counts […]
Police issue urgent warning following QPS phone number used in scam
Detectives from the State Crime Command’s Financial and Cyber Crime Group have issued a warning to Queensland residents about a scam using a Queensland Police Service phone number to legitimise a government or Australian Taxation Office (ATO) impersonation scam. In this instance the criminals are using a practice known as caller ID spoofing where they […]
Armed robbery and stalking charges, Woree
Cairns detectives have charged a 47-year-old Bungalow man with several offences including armed robbery and stalking following an alleged assault at a Woree home on April 28. It will be alleged three men attended an Anderson Road home around 8.30pm and spoke to the male occupant, who was known to them. The men entered the […]
Sexual assault charges, Edmonton
Cairns detectives arrested and charged a 15-year-old boy after a woman was allegedly sexually assaulted at an Edmonton residence on Tuesday evening, April 30. Police will allege a male broke into an Edmonton home around 9.50pm and assaulted a woman aged in her 20s. The woman was allegedly punched in the face and hit about […]
Appeal for witnesses, Chinchilla
Police are seeking public assistance to help identify a car that may have been involved in a break and enter at a storage facility at Chinchilla on April 23 and 24. The car of interest was parked on Zeller Street, near the intersection of Cooper Street between 10.30pm and 11.30pm on both nights. Police are […]
Fatal traffic crash, Esk
A 21-year-old man has died after his car was involved in a single car accident on the Esk Hampton Road, Redbank Creek on April 29. The car appeared to have been travelling in an east bound direction, when it has left the roadway to the left, and hit with a tree around 8.30am. The man […]
Armed robberies, Rockhampton
Police are investigating following two armed robberies at licensed premises in Rockhampton this morning. At around 12.30am a man entered a hotel on Upper Dawson Road armed with a tyre iron and approached the counter. He then threatened a bartender with the weapon, demanding money. The bartender complied and handed over a sum of cash […]
Armed robbery, Tingalpa
Detectives have released vision after a convenience store was robbed yesterday afternoon in Tingalpa. Two men entered the store on Wynnum Road at 4.40pm, one armed with a knife and the other with an axe. The pair made demands for cash and cigarettes, and when the attendant complied, they fled the scene with a quantity […]
Search and rescue success, Torres Strait
Four people had a lucky escape this morning when they were located on a channel marker after their vessel had capsized off North West Reef locally referred to as Reef 1 approximately seven nautical miles from Thursday Island. At about 3pm on April 28, three men aged 51, 38 and 21 and a 16-year-old boy […]