Queensland Police The Queensland Police Service (QPS) is the principal law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Australian state of Queensland. In 1990, the Queensland Police Force was officially renamed the Queensland Police Service and the old motto ...

is responsible for providing policing services to

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and crime statistics for the state are provided on their website.

Brisbane

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, the state capital of Queensland.

Crime statistics

There are a number of areas throughout the Brisbane Metro Area which have shown escalating criminal activity and gang activity over the past decade. Some of these areas included areas neighboring the Brisbane city limits such as the

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and Surfers Paradise. The suburbs of Augustine Heights, Bellbird Park, Camira, Carole Park, Gailes,

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and Springfield in

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recorded the highest number of break-ins in 2012. Although Underwood and surrounds has been identified as the state’s home break-in hot spot. In August 2013, the Queensland Police Service launched an online crime map to provide crime data to the public. ''Number of total offenses in Queensland since 2012:'' 2012: 437,863 2013: 435,599 2014: 440,986 2015: 460,113 2016: 503,278 2017: 493,230 2018: 516,899 2019: 543,605 2020: 501,093 2021: 505,177 2022: 559,877 2023: 99,385 (March 14)

Public transport

Trains and Railway Stations

Some railway stations have issues with youth gangs and individuals harassing passengers and police officers. Other stations with just between four and six assaults in the same period were

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, Cannon Hill,

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, Central, Strathpine and Caboolture. Burpengary, Bald Hills and Indooroopilly train stations were the only on the Citytrain network to have a grievous assault - defined as potentially causing permanent injury or disability. Queensland Police Operations Support Command said in 2008 that the network is safe and that the rate of crime is not worse than that in the community in general, explaining that the perception it was higher was due to the close confines of being in a passenger train. The network operator,

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, implemented various security initiatives over more than a decade that includes closed-circuit television at stations and within trains, and patrols over the network and on-board services by Revenue Protection Officers, uniformed and plain-clothed police officers of the network's own squad, and security guards, to deter crime and assist with identifying offenders.

Busses

Attacks against bus drivers are uncommon but not unheard of in Brisbane. In late 2019, TransLink, the city's bus network operator, launched a bus driver safety campaign in partnership with the

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. The campaign, ''See It From Their Side'', funds a number of public awareness campaigns (television, radio, and print), the installation of physical safety measures, additional Senior Network Officers (transport fare and safety enforcement officers), and further policy development.

Youth gangs

Youth gangs have played a large part in the amount of crime occurring within various problem areas of Brisbane. Such violence prompted the Queensland Commissioner to reactivate a Youth Gang Task-force in 2008.

Other crime

In October 2021, a wanted man tried to enter Queensland from New South Wales in a suitcase in that back of a truck. He was a drug smuggler and was not meant to leave his house. He was probably trying to leave the country. Police check vehicles because of the COVID-19 and they were surprised when there was a knock on the wall.

References

External links

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