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The 2017 Ekka has finished for another year. The Queensland Police Display was a huge hit this year and offered children the opportunity to become Junior Police Officers.
Children were given a police hat, badge, police notebook and had their finger prints taken.  They were also given their first mission which was to attend the individual police displays and several other Government Departments and obtain a stamp from each department in their notebook. Once their notebook was complete, the children came back to the Junior Police Academy and entered a competition to win an iPad, a PS4 or an Xbox One.
There was a total of 2,113 entries in the competition with our winners being:

Isabella Peroni
Jessie Powell
Sam Ryan

Each winner was visited by police from the Crime Prevention Programs Unit and presented with their prize. Needless to say we had three very happy children.
The QPS are very proud of all our new Junior

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These officers come from different stations, units and commands from around the state. They are mothers, fathers, partners, daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, colleagues and friends. They are police officers. They are LGBTI. They are proud.
Together they are part of the statewide QPS LGBTI Liaison Program, providing a professional, non-discriminatory, accessible policing service to members of the LGBTI communities.
Each of them have had their struggles. Each of them are now happy, something they once only ever dreamed about.
Today is Wear It Purple Day. Today is about making sure rainbow people feel safe. Today is about instilling pride within them.
These officers each have messages of advice and encouragement for the LGBTI community.
Listen to their stories and reach out if you need help.
It gets better.
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For more information about the LGBTI Liaison Program visit here. 
Help and support is also available at Headspace.

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Samford Rangers Football Club are supporting this year’s Queensland Road Safety Week by sharing messages for the campaign on their electronic score board for all to see.
Samford Rangers FC sharing the campaign messages helps us to be the best ‘role model’ to your kids you can be on the road – it’s where they learn most of their future driving behaviour!
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If you’re in the Samford this week please keep your eye-out for the messages promoting the Queensland Road Safety Week campaign.
Remember to “speak up and be heard”. Make Queensland’s state-wide Road Safety Week an important event in your community’s calendar every year.

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Save the date! “Wear it Purple” Day is fast approaching on the 25th day of August 2017.
Drag out of the closet those purple clothes and wear with pride your loudest purple get ups.
This year the Queensland Police Service (QPS) is again supporting “Wear it Purple” to raise community awareness and empower Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) young people to know they are not alone and have the right to be proud of who they are.
Let’s get into the spirit by adding a dash of purple to celebrate diversity.
Keep an eye out for your local Police officers who may be wearing purple boot laces, purple ribbons or the LGBTI QPS Police Lanyards.

Just a reminder that if you wish to speak to a LGBTI liaison officer at Ferny Grove Police Station come and speak to me Senior Constable Jess DOMROW. Alternatively, for other stations please contact Policelink on 131444 or

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As part of Queensland Road Safety Week this morning I attended Mount Coot tha with officers from District Crime Prevention.
The theme of today is “Share the Road”, to be patient and keep a lookout for bicycles, motorcycles and pedestrians.
As part of that theme we spoke with road users, in particular cyclists, in the Mount Coo- tha area. We were fortunate that we had some bells and bike locks that we were provided to offer to cyclists.
We had some great interaction with road users and were able to reinforce the message that everyone should look out for and give all other road users the extra space they need, particularly trucks, cyclists and motorcyclists.

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Police from the Inner West Patrol Group will hold events for the Mt Zero campaign this weekend as a part of the Queensland Road Safety Week.
It all starts up at Mt Nebo “Café on the mountain” on Saturday morning with police spreading road safety messages to road users that meet there.
Sunday morning, officers will attend the “Mt Glorious Café” with members of The Gap Neighbourhood Watch and Department of Transport and Main Roads were the official launch of the next phase of Mt Zero will take place.
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

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Tomorrow police from Indooroopilly Road Policing Unit and District Crime Prevention will be conducting a ‘Share the Road’ information event on Sir Samuel Griffith Drive, Mt Coot-tha for Queensland Road Safety Week.
We would love to talk to all cyclists that ride on Mt Coot-tha – we also have a stock of bells and bike locks to give away.
We would also like all other road users to stop and have a chat with us about sharing the road and road safety in general.

When:
Thursday, August 24

Time:
5.30am to 9am

Where:
Sir Samuel Griffith Drive, Mt Coot-tha

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As part of Queensland Road Safety Week, Inner West Patrol Group held an information stall on Wednesday, August 23 at the Arana Hills PCYC.
We invited residents to take the opportunity to speak to local police, Crime Stoppers volunteers and Neighbourhood Watch volunteers on the morning.
Those attending also had anti-theft screws fitted to their vehicle number plates free of charge.

Police would like to thank the Arana Hill PCYC, Crime Stoppers, Neighbourhood Watch and Help Enterprises volunteers with their invaluable assistance on the day.
If you were unable to attend this event, the screws are available at your local police station; Ferny Grove, The Gap and Indooroopilly.

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This morning as part of Queensland Road Safety Week, Indooroopilly Road Policing Unit undertook an operation with a difference. We spoke with the drivers of vehicles that were identified as having a minor defect such as non functional brake lights or indicators.
When we stopped drivers we were able to provide them with a voucher from a major automotive retailer as an incentive to quickly replace the broken globes. Whilst some might think that broken bulbs are only a minor defect, in my experience broken indicators/brake lights can contribute towards traffic crashes.
We handed out over 20 vouchers and had a great response from drivers that we spoke with and the majority were very happy to accept our offer of a voucher to assist them toward the cost of replacement bulbs.
As part of Queensland Road Safety Week, can I ask that everyone check their brake lights and indicators to ensure they are all

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Today as part of Queensland Road Safety Week 2017, staff from Indooroopilly Road Policing Unit and The Gap Division combined to undertake an operation within The Gap Division generally.
We were focusing on drivers that are in excess of prescribed alcohol limits or have drugs present in their system whilst driving.
We utilised a number of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) vehicles which are very effective and a useful tool in our role as they quickly identify vehicles that are unregistered/uninsured and persons that are wanted.

We used the local knowledge of The Gap staff combined with the specialist knowledge and equipment that Road Policing Units possess, to conduct a number of drug and alcohol tests.
We detected one driver who returned an alleged positive reading of the presence of drugs within their system. The driver was issued a Notice to Appear for driving with a relevant drug present in saliva and is to appear

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