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Brett Schafferius appointed Assistant Commissioner

Assistant Commissioner Brett Schafferius with colleagues during NAIDOC celebrations
Police Commissioner Ian Stewart has today announced the appointment of Brett Schafferius as an Assistant Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service (QPS).
Assistant Commissioner Schafferius was previously the Far Northern District Officer, and will take over the Community Contact Command portfolio.
“I am very pleased today to welcome Assistant Commissioner Schafferius to the Executive Leadership Team of the Queensland Police Service,” Commissioner Stewart said.
“Assistant Commissioner Schafferius is recognised throughout our organisation as a progressive and adaptive leader whose focus is on strengthening relationships with community and cultural groups to improve safety and increase resilience.
“He brings to this role a wealth of experience from a diverse range of positions across the state, including his most recent role as Far North District Officer.
“As Assistant Commissioner of the Community Contact Command, he will lead on community engagement, ensuring Queenslanders are receiving world-class policing responses and that we

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Drugs and 3D weapons seizure, Mudjimba

Police have located dangerous drugs and a number of handguns allegedly produced by a 3D printer during the search of Mudjimba residence yesterday.
Officers attended the Currawong Street address around 8.30am and made the discovery which also included false driver licences and credit cards allegedly made using printers and scanning equipment.
The three handguns and various weapon parts seized were allegedly produced by a 3D printer over the last two months and capable of being fired.
Police also located a knuckelduster, methylamphetamine, MDMA capsules and scales.
A 27-year-old Mudjimba man was taken into custody at the scene.
He has been charged with 12 offences including two counts each of possessing dangerous weapons, supplying dangerous drugs, possessing dangerous drugs and one count each of fraud, manufacture weapon whilst not licensed, obtaining or dealing with identification information, possession of utensils, possession of anything used in the commission of crime and possession of equipment for the purpose of

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Crop-a-Cop brings officer together with survivor, 20 years later

Acting Superintendent Joe Jaramozovic was recently reunited with Townsville local, Taylor Byrnes after the 2018 Gold Coast Marathon but, this is not where their story first began.
In 1997, Acting Superintendent Jaramozovic, then a Constable with the Gold Coast Crime Unit, participated in the annual Crop-a-Cop fundraising event for cancer. Pictured below, he had the pleasure of having his head shaved by a 5-year-old boy by the name of Taylor Byrnes, who had a brain tumour removed the previous year.

This was an interaction that Taylor, and his family, would not forget for years to come, with Taylor’s grandmother hanging onto the Gold Coast Bulletin news clipping for over 20 years.
In 2018, Taylor, an avid fitness enthusiast, set out to conquer the Gold Coast Marathon, a gruelling 42km race around the stunning Gold Coast. It was at this time that Taylor’s grandmother pulled out the old Gold Coast Bulletin article and suggested

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