Queensland police will be equipped with eight more heavy-duty armoured vehicles as part of a $6.2 million investment amid what has been labelled a “distressing” increase in attacks on officers.
Police will be equipped with eight more heavy-duty armoured vehicles as part of a $6.2 million investment amid what has been labelled a “distressing” increase in attacks on officers across Queensland.
Two officers at Meringandan tried to stop the driver of a stolen truck and alleged that when they opened the door to the truck the driver accelerated, trapping officers between the truck and a police car before they were thrown across the bonnet and onto the road. Police have been involved in a series of shootings over recent months, including last week, when officers shot dead an Indigenous man in Brisbane’s northern suburbs after he allegedly lunged at them with a knife.
Queensland police will add a BearCat to their armoured fleet, along with several other lighter vehicles.The vehicles, which weigh more than nine tonnes and are difficult to manoeuvre, are routinely used in sieges or crimes where officers know offenders have firearms.
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