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The Queensland Police Service (QPS) is the principal law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Australian state of Queensland.In 1990, the Queensland Police Force was officially renamed the Queensland Police Service and the old motto of "Firmness with Courtesy" was changed to "With Honour We Serve".
The Queensland Police Force was established by the Queensland Government on 1 January 1864 with strength of 287 officers serving a population of 61,467. David Thompson Seymour appointed as Acting Commissioner and later as Commissioner.
Fitzgerald Inquiry. The Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct (the Fitzgerald Inquiry; 1987–1989) into Queensland Police corruption was a judicial inquiry presided over by Tony Fitzgerald QC. The inquiry resulted in the resignation of Queensland's premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the calling of ...
The Wieambilla shootings was a religiously motivated terrorist attack in Australia on 12 December 2022. It involved the killing of police constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, and neighbour Alan Dare, at a rural property in Wieambilla, a locality in Queensland. Three residents, brothers Gareth and Nathaniel Train, and Gareth's wife ...
Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) is the Police Tactical Group of the Queensland Police Service (QPS) and also provides a high angle rescue response. [3] SERT provides the QPS with the ability to respond to high risk situations incidents statewide. [2] SERT is based in Brisbane and Cairns to ensure that specialists capabilities are ...
Queensland Police Service. Task Force Argos is a branch of the Queensland Police Service, responsible for the investigation of online child exploitation and abuse. [1][2] Founded in 1997, the unit's original charter was to investigate institutional child abuse allegations arising from the Forde Inquiry. The unit's name was derived from Greek ...
The Queensland Native Police Force alone were responsible for an estimated 24,000 "violent Aboriginal deaths" between 1859 and 1897, as calculated by professor Raymond Evans in 2009. [26] Slavery in Australia was sanctioned by law (before being banned in 1901 following Federation) and was officially upheld by many police forces and government ...
Clayfield, Brisbane, Queensland. Resting place. Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane. Spouse. Eleanor Teresa Short (c. 1859–1936) Profession. Police officer. Patrick Short (1859-1941) was a police officer who served as the Commissioner of the Queensland Police Force from 1921 until his retirement in 1925. He was the first Queensland-born police ...