Changes to Qld police procedures on hold as union threatens court
News by Jodie Munro OâBrien 18th Mar 2021 5:06 AM
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Subscriber only The rollout of a new program designed to streamline Queensland police operations has been halted after the police union threatened to go to the industrial court. In the March 12 letter, Mr Barnes wrote that several police officers had claimed the changes were resulting in additional fatigue, having to work a double-quick shift after night work, and there was a lack of staff available to actually implement some of the changes. Â The rollout of a program designed to implement changes to the way Queensland Police officers serve the community for the first time in 25 years has come to an abrupt halt after the police union threatened to go to the industrial court if it continued. Picture: Supplied
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A Capella couple was left with nothing but an empty box after a brand new Thermomix was stolen from their mailbox on Thursday.
David Lablack took to Facebook on March 11 with the news the TM6 Thermomix had been stolen from his property along Yan Yan Road, Capella.
He said the thief left the empty box behind.
Mr Lablack told
CQ News the machine was a birthday present to his wife who was diagnosed with osteoporosis.
“The Thermomix was to make it easier for her to prepare the bone building diet that will hopefully help her strengthen her bones,” he said.
Copâs corrupt tip-off to mate in drugs probe A tribunal member declared that if the officer had still been employed by Queensland Police Service he would have been dismissed.
Crime by Kay Dibben
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Subscriber only A former police officer engaged in corrupt conduct by tipping off a man he knew that he had been named as a drug supplier, a tribunal has found. Then constable James Alexander Walker gave his friend enough information about the informant for him to work out the identity of the man who said he was selling drugs. It had the potential to give Walker s friend, NE , the opportunity to stop any criminal activity or dispose of any evidence, a Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal found.