About 500 extra sworn officers and 400 unsworn officers are set to join the state’s police service,with nearly 700 recruits undergoing training.
Police said the man had earlier stolen a vehicle,which had a long-arm rifle inside.
The police veteran of 44 years has been appointed to the top job after a two-month search to fill the early departure of his predecessor,Katarina Carroll.
The parents of the Bondi Junction killer have spoken of his descent from country school kid to national “monster”,against the backdrop of untreated mental illness.
The Queensland man who fatally stabbed six people at a shopping centre in Sydney’s Bondi Junction was itinerant and living out of his car with history of mental illness,police say.
An alleged homicide and subsequent police shooting are under investigation in Queensland.
The views described as an “outward racist ideology” lit up parliament,the media,and parts of community. Emails and texts now shed light on internal responses.
Police have launched an investigation into how a teenager was questioned by officers before a Supreme Court trial was abandoned.
A Queensland Police Service employee has allegedly been paid to access information and release it to a domestic violence perpetrator.
Police believe a man allegedly killed his mother at least two days before her body was found in a Fortitude Valley apartment.
A National Australia Bank employee who was in charge of one of Brisbane’s busiest branches has been accused of fraud.