On Friday, July 3, six-year-old Travis Heery, who is battling a terminal illness, was sworn into the Service as an honorary junior police officer for the day.
After getting his own QPS uniform, Travis was picked up from his home and driven to the Mounted Police Centre in Moggill
Little Travis has always wanted to be a police officer.
Unfortunately, in his final weeks of Prep, he was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPG) which is an aggressive and incurable tumour that grows in the brainstem.
Showing his bravery and resilience, Travis has received 30 radiation treatments, which successfully gave him full motion back and for two blissful months, and he was able to be a normal six year old boy.
Travis’ mum, Kaye, said that sadly, the tumour has returned and has now entered a state of progression which will eventually take Travis’s ability to speak, eat and eventually breathe.
“He is courageous beyond