BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 13 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: The Queensland Police Service (QPS) has partnered with not-for-profit organisation Australian MedicAlert Foundation to launch the Safe and Found initiative in Queensland. The partnershipwill significantly expand the organisation's capability to assist with missing person investigations and search and rescue operations. The initiative assists people living with dementia, autism or a cognitive impairm...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 13 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating a fatal traffic crash at Stanmore on Sunday, February 9. Initial investigations indicate that around 1.15pm, emergency services were called to Bellthorpe Range Road, following reports a vehicle had struck a tree. Upon arrival, police located a Toyota Hilux utility with a single occupant in the driver seat, receiving treatment by other emergency services. The...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 13 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Detectives from the Major and Organised Crime Squad Far Northern along with officers from the Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) arrested two people at separate shopping centres in Cairns on February 11. It will be alleged at around 12pm, police intercepted a 34-year-old Manoora man at an Earlville shopping centre and seized a handgun, more than $43,000 and methylamphetamine. It will be alleged ...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 13 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Detectives from Taskforce Maxima South Eastern Region have charged 15 people on more than 50 charges following an operation targeting the alleged recruitment of gang members across the southeast. Operation Whiskey Rebound was launched in September 2024, to investigate members, former members and associates of the Comanchero Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (OMCG) who were allegedly involved in recruitment, dru...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 13 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police are appealing for dash-camera footage as part of an investigation into a missing 29-year-old woman from the Roma and Dalby areas since on February 2, 2025. Following information received from the community, police have confirmed Tayla Spies left a hotel in Dalby at around 8am on Sunday morning and travelled west towards Surat. Her vehicle was last seen at the intersection of Burrowes Street a...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 13 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Logan police are intensifying efforts to disrupt and apprehend offenders responsible for multiple property crimes across the region. Following a series of break ins, robberies, and vehicle thefts across Rochedale South, Carindale, Eagleby, Underwood, and Manly West, police are actively targeting those responsible and implementing strategic enforcement measures to prevent further offending. Acting Ch...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 13 -- Queensland Health issued the following media release: Queenslanders are urged to take measures to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes amid detections of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) and Ross River virus among some mosquito populations across the state. Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Heidi Carroll said that notifications of mosquito borne illnesses typically start to rise in February as mosquito populations increase. "Mosquito numbers always increase sign...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 13 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: An EMERGENCY ALERT has been issued at 5.20pm Thursday February 13 by Charters Towers Local Disaster Management Group. This is a WATER ADVICE from the Charters Towers Local Disaster Management Group for CHARTERS TOWERS. Charters Towers will be moving to a level 5 water restriction (essential use only) from 9pm today. Please conserve your water use for showering (maximum 3 minutes), only flushing the t...
CANBERRA, ACT, Feb. 12 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editor's note: Vision and images of the arrest and seized items are available via Hightail. A contractor to Australia's postal service has been sentenced to two years and three months' imprisonment for using his position to take at least $400,000 worth of items including jewellery, designer luxury goods and alcohol, from mail packages. The man, 43, was sentenced by the Downing Centre District Court yesterd...
CANBERRA, ACT, Feb. 12 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editor's note: TV grabs from Assistant Commissioner Richard Chin available via Hightail. Australia has imposed financial sanctions on five Russian individuals and a cybercriminal infrastructure provider for offering services which enabled notorious criminal networks to facilitate unlawful activity online. The AFP acknowledges the decision by the Australian, US and UK governments today (12 February, 2025) t...