Thieves aiming to steal number plates from South Burnett residents will be feeling a little bit more frustrated following two recent “Turn the Screws” days organised by the Murgon and Kumbia Neighbourhood Watch groups.
Murgon police have endured another week of people throwing rocks, smashing windows, kicking in doors, breaking into houses and stealing vehicles …
Opposition Leader and Member for Nanango Deb Frecklington has quizzed Police Minister Mark Ryan about police numbers in the South Burnett.
Just a week after a Kingaroy resident awoke to find a thief in their house in Macdiarmid Street, another house in the same street has been targeted.
Almost a million dollars will be spent by the Federal Government to install CCTV cameras near key locations in Cherbourg.
Kingaroy Police have thrown their weight behind fundraising efforts for flood-affected north-west Queensland.
A driver was taken to hospital after a single-vehicle crash in Tingoora on Monday afternoon.
A woman was transported to Kingaroy Hospital with suspected chest injuries after a collision involving three vehicles and a box trailer on the Bunya Highway on Thursday morning.
Kingaroy police are investigating a “sneak break” which woke a resident in Macdiarmid Street on February 11.
Police are investigating a bizarre failed robbery attempt at a service station in Kilcoy where the would-be thieves eventually fled empty-handed along the D’Aguilar Highway.
South Burnett police have again been kept busy investigating thefts and break-ins in the Murgon and Cherbourg areas:
Police Minister Mark Ryan has responded to a widely shared TV report about Queensland prisoners smashing TV sets in their cells.
A man has been summonsed to appear in court following a disturbance at Nanango RSL Club on Saturday night.
A two-week search for a man reported missing near Borumba Dam ended in tragedy on Monday.
A male motorbike rider was transported to Kingaroy Hospital in a serious condition after a single-vehicle crash at Booie on Monday afternoon.
Police were patrolling Murgon streets on Monday in a bid to locate a teenager who escaped custody
Six rural fire crews are currently on scene – and another six on the way – at a grass fire burning near Kingaroy-Barkers Creek Road in the Sandy Ridges area.
The second of two vehicles stolen from the Graham House Community Transport Service depot in Murgon on February 10 was located in Kingaroy on Friday.
Police are investigating a fatal traffic crash that occurred on the D’Aguilar Highway at Woolmar, near Kilcoy, at 3:20pm on Friday.
Police Commissioner Ian Stewart has assured residents there will be no interruption to the Crime Stoppers service, despite the closure of the call centre.
