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Police are investigating an armed robbery of a business in Norman Park yesterday evening.
Around 9:15pm, a man armed with a weapon has entered a store on Bennetts Road and placed a bag on the counter before demanding the male shop assistant place money into the bag.
The assistant complied and the armed man has then left the shop towards Milsom Street.
Police located a number of items believed to be involved in the incident nearby, including clothing and a knife.
The man is described as Caucasian in appearance, around 195cm tall, with a tanned complexion and a long, gaunt face.
Police are appealing for anyone who may have witnessed the incident or who may have dash-cam vision from the area to contact police.
If you have information for police, contact Policelink on 131 444 or provide information using the online form 24hrs per day.
You can report information about crime anonymously to Crime Stoppers,

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Update, December 20: Police would like to report that since this article was published yesterday, a further two trailers have been stolen; one from Auchenflower and the other from Ashgrove.
Police report a recent increase in the theft of trailers, caravans and camper trailers across the Inner West area with 11 stolen over the past few weeks.
Offenders are targeting trailered vehicles including tool trailers, camper trailers, trailered boats and caravans particularly during the night.
Suburbs currently affected by the thefts include Everton Park, Bardon, Ashgrove, Toowong, Indooroopilly and Auchenflower area.
Police appeal for the community to secure trailers, camper trailers, trailered boats and caravans using security devices available through local hardware and vehicle accessory stores.
In most cases, trailers were secured only by a chain and padlock and offenders have cut the chain and stolen the trailer.
Trailer owners are urged to avoid leaving trailers parked in front yards or on the street, instead parking

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Police are appealing for witnesses following a traffic crash at Kenmore on December 18.
At around 9.10am a white Holden utility drove out of Kenmore Shopping Centre at the corner of Cedarleigh Road and Marshall Lane onto Moggill Road.
It is believed the vehicle then travelled over the centre median strip and collided with a blue Jeep.
Both cars sustained extensive damage as a result of the crash.
Police are appealing for anyone who may have been in the vicinity at the time and witnessed the incident, or anyone who may have dashcam vision to contact Policelink or Crime Stoppers.
If you have information for police, contact Policelink on 131 444 or provide information using the online form 24hrs per day.
You can report information about crime anonymously to Crime Stoppers, a registered charity and community volunteer organisation, by calling 1800 333 000 or via crimestoppersqld.com.au 24hrs per day.

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Break and enter dwellings: The total number of burglaries in the Inner West Patrol Group this week was six.

Suburb
Street
Time
Entry Method

Property
Stolen
Date

Auchenflower
Milton Road
Evening
Rear door – SNEAK BURGLARY
Lap top, alcohol, camera –
14/12/2017

Auchenflower
Payne Road
Overnight
Unknown – SNEAK BURGLARY
Wallet and cash
08/12/2017to 09/12/2017

Everton Hills
Grevillea Street
Evening
Rear door
Nil
15/12/2017

Saint Lucia
Eleventh Avenue
Between dates
Unknown
Jewellery

11/12/2017
to
14/12/2017

Taringa
Alpha Street
Overnight
Rear door
Laptop, wallet, personal cards and phone
18/12/2017

Toowong
High Street
Between dates
Unknown
Helmet

November 2017
to 15/12/2017

 
Steal from premises: The total number of steal from premises (businesses, schools, garages, etc) was four.

Suburb
Street
Time
Type
Date

Arana Hills
Patrick Road
Overnight
Business
12/12/2017

Gaythorne
Lade Street
Morning
Business
10/12/2017

Indooroopilly
Coonan Street
Night
Business
11/12/2017

Toowong
Bent Street
Overnight
Garage
11/12/2017

 
Steal from motor vehicles: The total number of unlawful entries into motor vehicles was 12.

Suburb
Street
Time
Location
Property Stolen
Date

Ashgrove
Lindsay Street
Overnight
Front yard
Rear number plate
11/12/2017 to 12/12/2017

Brookfield
Brookfield
Between dates
Unknown
Rear number plate
08/12/2017 to 11/12/2017

Everton Park
White Street
Between dates
Unknown
Front & rear number plate
03/12/2017 to 11/12/2017

Ferny Hills
Leonarda Drive
Overnight
Front yard
Tools
15/12/2017 to 16/12/2017

Indooroopilly
Moggill Road
Overnight
Caryard
Lightbar
12/12/2017 to 13/12/2017

Indooroopilly
Clarence Road
Day
Garage
Keys and swipe cards
16/12/2017

Taringa
Moggill Road
Day
Carpark
Cash and electronic items
14/12/2017

Taringa
Waverley Road
Overnight
Garage
Clothing and cash
10/12/2017 to 11/12/2017

Taringa
Alpha Street
Overnight
Driveway
Cash
16/12/2017

Taringa 
Ellerslie Crescent
Early morning
Driveway
Cards
16/12/2017

The Gap
Waterworks Road
Day
Street
Rear vision mirror
15/12/2017

Toowong
Sherwood Road
Day
Carpark
Handbag, cash and personal items
16/12/2017

 
Motor vehicle thefts: The total number of motor vehicle thefts was eight.

Suburb
Street
Time
Located Suburb
Vehicle
Date

Arana

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Police from the Inner West Patrol Group conducted the Mt Zero campaign on the weekend, spreading road safety messages to all road users.
Officers attended the Brisbane West region to share important information in relation to the Mt Zero campaign that aims to reduce accidents and fatalities on the roads.
The campaign raises awareness of the dangers of Mt Nebo and Mt Glorious roads with common factors contributing to accidents on these roads being speed, lack of rider experience, rider/driver error, motorcycle visibility and collision with other vehicles.
Police will continue to remind all road users on the dangers of the mountain roads they are about to experience.
We would like to thank the Pedaleurs de Charme cycling group, who were in the area training for a cycling trek across Tasmania in February, for their support of the campaign. We’d like to wish the cycling group safe travels on there adventure in Tasmania.
‘Pedaleurs de Charme” cycling group
Mt Zero

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Deputy Commissioner Brett Pointing has today announced he will leave the Queensland Police Service (QPS) after a 40-year career.
Deputy Commissioner Pointing will take leave from today and officially separate from the QPS in March 2018.
Commissioner Ian Stewart thanked Deputy Commissioner Pointing for his contribution to the QPS.
“Brett has been a valued member of the Executive Leadership Team as deputy commissioner for the past five years and I wish him all the very best for the future, wherever that may take him,” Commissioner Stewart said.
“Brett has taken on a number of significant portfolios over this time and has made a significant contribution to policing in Queensland.”
Deputy Commissioner Pointing said he had enjoyed a policing career which included being stationed in Ipswich, Goondiwindi, Toowoomba, Roma, Rockhampton and the Gold Coast.
“It has been a wonderful career over 40 years,” Deputy Commissioner Pointing said.
“Thank you to all the people I have met in communities

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Police from the Inner West Patrol Group will hold events for the Mt Zero campaign this weekend at Mt Coot-tha Lookout on Saturday morning with police spreading road safety messages to road users that meet there.
Sunday morning, officers will attend the Mt Nebo Café between 8am and 8.30am and then to Mt Glorious Café between 9am and 9.30am.
Mt Zero is a campaign created to raise awareness of the dangers of the Mt Coot-tha, Mt Nebo and Mt Glorious roads. Common causal factors contributing to accidents on these roads were speed, lack of rider experience, rider error, motorcycle visibility and collision with other vehicles.
Police will continue to remind all road users on the dangers of the mountain roads they are about to experience. The aim of the campaign is to reduce accidents and fatalities on these roads.
Police hope to speak with local residents, motorcycle riders, cyclists and drivers about sharing the road safely.
A big thanks to

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Brisbane Detectives are appealing for public assistance to identify victims and employers of a man suspected of indecently assaulting numerous women in the Hervey Bay, Maryborough and the wider Brisbane area between 2000 and 2016.
It is believed the man worked as a masseuse, as a sole operator and also employed by massage and chiropractic businesses in the Hervey Bay and Maryborough area between 2000 to 2012 and in the Brisbane area between 2012 to 2016.
Investigations indicate that during this time, the man indecently assaulted numerous women whilst they received massage treatments.
The man is described as being aged between 50 and 65-years-of-age and has long grey hair which he wears in a ponytail.
Detectives are appealing to any members of the public who may have been assaulted by this man or any employers who offer massage treatment that may have employed this man to contact either the Acacia Ridge or Carseldine Criminal

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Detectives from the State Crime Command’s Drug and Serious Crime Group have charged four men following a joint investigation into an alleged organised drug network with interstate links.
Yesterday, police officially closed Operation Radnor Foxcatcher, a protracted investigation with search warrants carried out on a number of Brisbane addresses.
This investigation targeted a number of people involved in the interstate trafficking of cannabis between Sydney and Brisbane.
The joint investigation with the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission commenced as a result of the intercept of a 24-year-old Doolandella man in Worongary on May 21 this year.
At the time detectives searched a vehicle and located 100 kilograms of high grade cannabis.
Ongoing investigations identified other members of the group and police will allege that between February and May this year the syndicate were responsible for the trafficking of 2.2 tonnes of cannabis.
To date, four men have been arrested including a 28-year-old from Durack, 28-year-old from Inala

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Break and enter dwelling: The total number of burglaries in the Inner West Patrol Group this week was 14.

Suburb
Street
Time
Entry method

Property
stolen
Date

Arana Hills
Patricks Road
Day
Rear window
Unknown at this stage
05/12/2017

Arana Hills
Cedarwood Court
Evening
Unknown
Nil
06/12/2017

Arana Hills
View Crescent
Evening
Sliding security door cut and nib flicked open – SNEAK BURGLARY
3 x sets of car keys, house keys, work keys
06/12/2017

Saint Lucia
Hawken Drive
Unknown
Bathroom window smashed
Jewellery, cash, kindle

02/12/2017
to
04/12/2017

Saint Lucia
Depper Street
Day
Rear balcony scaled and door forced
Backpack, external hard drive, lap top
05/12/2017

Saint Lucia
Mitre Street
Morning
Sliding left unlocked

Backpack, lap top
 
05/12/2017

Mitchelton
Blackwood Street
Overnight
Rear door – SNEAK BURGLARY
Cash
07/12/2017 to 08/12/2017

Mitchelton
Osborne Road
Overnight
Rear door
Mobile phone, lap top
08/12/2017 to 09/12/2017

Ferny Hills
Lamorna Court
Day
Unknown
Nil
05/12/2017

Bardon
Jubilee Terrace
Day
Front door forced
Jewellery, sporting & ski gear, 2 x mobile phones
06/12/2017

Auchenflower
Payne Street
Early morning
Kitchen window – SNEAK BURGLARY
Nil – OFFENDER DISTURBED
08/12/2017

Anstead
Hawkesbury Road
Overnight
Door forced
Unknown at this stage
09/12/2017 to 10/12/2017

Moggill
Matfield Street
Day
Rear door forced
Jewellery, keys, lap top

04/12/2017
 

Ashgrove
Lindsay Street
Overnight
Laundry door – SNEAK BURGLARY
Car keys, vehicle

06/12/2017
to
07/12/2017

 
Steal from premises: The total number of steal from premises (businesses, schools, garages, etc) was two.

Suburb
Street
Time
Type
Date

Kenmore
Moggill Road
Early morning
Shop
06/12/2017

Toowong
Bent Street
Overnight
Garage
10/12/2017 to 11/12/2017

 
Steal from

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