LNP calls for police beats in hospitals to halt rising violence
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The LNP has called for police beats to be co-located at major Queensland hospitals to arrest the escalating problem of assaults on health workers.
Opposition health spokeswoman Ros Bates, the long-serving LNP member for Mudgeeraba, is still a registered nurse and her two sisters are also experienced nurses.
Having police beats in hospitals would mean that if there is an assault, the police can come over straight away , says Opposition Health spokeswoman Ros Bates.
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Both of her sisters have been physically assaulted on duty at Gold Coast hospitals, while Ms Bates has frequently shadowed clinical nurses at the Gold Coast University and Robina hospitals to observe security problems first-hand.
Man stabbed multiple times in random street attack A man has been rushed to hospital overnight after being stabbed on a sidewalk in Brisbane’s south.
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Subscriber only A man was rushed to hospital on Sunday night after being stabbed multiple times as he walked along a sidewalk in Brisbane s south. Emergency services, including police and Queensland Ambulance Service paramedics, arrived on scene at Ipswich Road, Annerley just after 11pm. Police allege the 39-year-old was walking down the street before engaging in a verbal argument with a group of men. It is alleged one of the men from the group took out a knife and stabbed the man in his stomach and buttocks.
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Serious motorbike crash at Marburg
Police are appealing for public information after a single vehicle crash in Marburg last night (December 25).
Preliminary investigations indicate just before 11pm, a motorcyclist came off his bike on the Warrego Highway.
A 47-year-old Lowood man is currently in Princess Alexandra Hospital in a critical condition.
Ipswich Police are appealing for anyone who may have witnessed the crash, or has dashcam vision, to contact them.
Investigations by the Forensic Crash Unit are continuing.
If you have information for police, contact Policelink by providing information using the online suspicious activity form 24hrs per day at www.police.qld.gov.au/reporting or call 131 444.