September 26, 2017
Kingaroy will be hosting the South Burnett’s annual National Police Remembrance Day service this week.
The service will be held on Friday (September 29) from 3:00pm at St Michael and All Angels Anglican Church in Alford Street, opposite the new Kingaroy Police Station.
The Kingaroy event is one of many vigils, services and marches which will be held throughout the State this week.
They will honour the 144 Queensland officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty since 1861.
The last serving policeman to die in Queensland was Toowoomba officer Senior Constable Brett Forte, 41, who was shot dead on May 29 by a criminal at Ringwood, in the Lockyer Valley.
Police Remembrance Day has been held throughout Queensland since 1989 on September 29, the feast day of St Michael the Archangel who is depicted in Christian tradition as fighting evil.
