A guard of honour has farewelled outgoing Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll as she finished her role as the state’s top cop on Friday. Officers gathered on the front steps of the Roma St headquarters on Friday. Ms Carroll was flanked by family, including husband Michael and son Connor, asContinue Reading
Covid vaccine mandates for Queensland police and ambulance workers were “unlawful”, the state’s supreme court has found, with the bombshell ruling tipped to spark a wave of similar challenges. Judge Glenn Martin on Tuesday ruled that Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll’s December 2021 order was “unlawful” under the Human RightsContinue Reading
Vicious graffiti targeting police has been found at the scene of the horror alleged stabbing murder of 70-year-old grandmother Vyleen White. Ms White was allegedly stabbed to death at the Redbank Plains Shopping Centre in Ipswich on Saturday. Police have now charged five juveniles in relation to the alleged attack,Continue Reading
Queensland residents are facing a heatwave just days after “unprecedented” storms wreaked havoc on coastal areas of the state, with some 50,000 properties still without power. Queensland, NSW and Victoria have been hit by several vicious storms in quick succession since Christmas Eve, which downed powerlines, destroyed homes and killedContinue Reading
A schoolteacher at a Brisbane school is among two missing after fierce storms in Queensland’s southeast left five people dead, including a nine-year-old girl. Stephen “Taity” Tait and two others were reported missing after the boat they were travelling on capsized near Green Island in Moreton Bay about 5.30pm onContinue Reading
Police are offering a $500,000 reward for information as they investigate the murder of a woman whose remains were found after more than a decade in a Brisbane basement. Cleaners discovered the skeletal remains of Tanya Lee Glover hidden behind a wall in the basement of a unit block inContinue Reading
Services across the country for National Police Remembrance Day on Friday will honour police force members who tragically lost their lives in the line of duty, including the two young officers killed at the fatal Wieambilla shooting in December. At the 2023 commemoration, constables Rachel McCrow, Matthew Arnold and AnthonyContinue Reading
Details of a police officer’s selfless act have emerged after she shot herself at a police station last week. Senior Constable Kym Slade, 48, took her own life at Loganholme Police Station, south of Brisbane, on July 20. One colleague told Daily Mail Australia that the officer had been sufferingContinue Reading
A police officer has been hospitalised after he was accidentally shot during a training session. A male sergeant sustained the gunshot wound following an “accidental discharge during routine firearm training” at a Childers police facility about 10am on Thursday. “Initial information indicates the officer, an instructor, sustained a single gunshotContinue Reading
Queensland will soon have some of the most relaxed drug laws in Australia, according to leaked emails obtained by News Corp, detailing the Palaszczuk government’s plans to sweep aside the state’s tough stance on hard drugs. The changes include giving anyone caught carrying up to a gram of heroin, cocaine,Continue Reading