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Queensland police ban the use of chokeholds in arrests, last jurisdiction in Australia to do so

The ban comes after the death of two men in the last five years, who were subject to a chokehold during their arrests.

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Queensland police banned from using 'sleeper' chokehold

A Queensland Police decision to ban a controversial chokehold often applied during difficult arrests has been challenged by union officials.

AAP

Reward offered in Indigenous mother's disappearance

A $500,000 reward for information to solve a young mother's disappearance in the remote Cape York is on the table.

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Hunt for ‘dangerous’ armed gunman enters fourth day

Queensland Police are calling for the surrender of an accused drug trafficker allegedly involved in three separate violent incidents in Brisbane on Thursday.

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Hunt for 'dangerous' armed gunman enters fourth day

Queensland Police are calling for the surrender of an accused drug trafficker allegedly involved in three separate violent incidents in Brisbane on Thursday.

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‘Armed, dangerous, irrational, unpredictable’: Massive Qld manhunt for shooting and arson suspect Mitchell Wilson

Queensland police have issued an all-points alert for an accused drug dealer described as armed, dangerous and "unpredictable".

The New Daily

Hunt for 'unpredictable' man after alleged crime spree

Queensland Police have appealed for an accused drug trafficker allegedly involved in three separate violent incidents in Brisbane on Thursday to surrender.

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Australia’s censor rejects push by anti-LGBTQIA+ activist to ban ‘Gender Queer’ memoir

The book was referred to the Classification Board after Queensland Police was tipped off by conservative campaigner Bernard Gaynor.

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Brisbane courthouse locked down amid shooting protest

A Brisbane courthouse has briefly been locked down after hundreds of protesters marched through the CBD following Aubrey Donahue's fatal shooting by police.

AAP

Police confirm officers who shot dead Mareeba man were not wearing body cameras

Acting Deputy Commissioner Mark Wheeler says the specialist police who fired the lethal shots "generally don't" wear body cameras, which are standard for first responder QPS officers.

ABC News

Queensland Police to extradite Mount Druitt man over alleged incidents with 17yo girls on Gold Coast

A Sydney man is in custody following two incidents involving teenage girls having to flee for help after allegedly being grabbed in public areas on the Gold Coast.

ABC News

Emergency declaration revoked, Lindsay Transport depot fire in Bundaberg brought under control

Queensland Police have lifted an emergency zone after firefighters battled until 2:00am to bring an industrial fire under control in Bundaberg.

ABC News

Queensland Police lose stun grenade in Townsville suburb after siege, issue public warning

A sound-and-flash grenade that has the "capacity to injure" is missing in a Townsville suburb after being lost by Queensland Police's tactical squad.

ABC News

Accused scam money launderer 'had 55 bank accounts'

Prosecutors allege a Brisbane woman accepted nearly $2.4 million from hackers and withdrew the money as cash or transferred it to foreign exchanges.

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Widow slams police over 'disgraceful' ambush probe

A Queensland Police inquiry into an officer's fatal shooting was "nothing short of disgraceful", his widow has told media after inquest findings were delivered.

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Prisoner checks 'substandard' in hours prior to death

Queensland Police found a Brisbane Watch House officer did not complete adequate safety checks on Aunty Sherry, an Indigenous woman who died in custody.

ABC News

$25 million to pay police overtime to target Queensland's youth crime hotspots

Queensland police officers will be paid extra in overtime shifts under a $25 million high-visibility operation targeting youth crime.

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Queensland police to retain right to charge children over minor drug offences for which adults receive only warning

Exclusive: advocates and legal experts warn legislation could disadvantage children who would still be subject to police discretion

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Cordingley suspect extradited over DNA, phone evidence

Rajwinder Singh has been extradited from India after police found DNA and phone evidence linking him to the homicide of Queensland woman Toyah Cordingley.

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Man accused of murder being extradited from India

Rajwinder Singh, who's suspected of the murder of a Queensland woman in 2018, is being extradited from India to Australia to face police questioning.

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Homicide probe begins after Queensland man stabbed

Queensland police have launched a homicide investigation after a 20-year-old man died following a stabbing during a brawl south of Brisbane.

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Queensland to recruit hundreds of foreign police

Up to 500 foreign nationals a year could be taken on by Queensland Police under an agreement between the state and federal governments.

ABC News

Queensland Police offer $500,000 reward to help solve Christine Fenner suspected murder cold case

Christine Fenner disappeared in February 1999 with Queensland Police now offering a $500,000 reward to anyone with information that can help convict her suspected killer.

ABC News

Queensland is to relax its drug laws, even for ice and heroin. How could it affect you?

The state government wants to expand its diversion program to personal quantities of anything from cocaine to meth.

AAP

Teen driver killed in outback Queensland crash

A 17-year-old boy driving with four passengers has died after he lost control of the vehicle in outback northwest Queensland.

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