The ex-undercover cop who writes to beat his nightmares
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If Keith Banks peers back into the darkness, his mouth is flooded with the gun-oil taste of the service pistol he placed in his mouth to end it all.
Sitting in his favourite chair with a bellyful of Scotch and a mind full of trauma, he knew he was less than 500 grams of trigger pressure away from joining the mate he had seen die on a raid for one of Australia’s most dangerous criminals.
Minister for Education, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Racing The Honourable Grace Grace
Two Queensland Racing Integrity Commission leadership positions have been temporarily filled.
Racing Minister Grace Grace said the roles of Acting Commissioner and Acting Deputy Commissioner have been finalised following the departures of Ross Barnett and Mark Ainsworth.
“Paul Brown (Director, Office of Commissioner) will perform the role of Acting Commissioner while
Daryl Johnson (Chief Superintendent, Qld Police) will perform the role of Acting Deputy Commissioner,” Ms Grace said.
“Mr Brown has been the Director of the Office of the Commissioner since 2016 and has been acting Deputy Commissioner since the resignation of Ross Barnett.
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Subscriber only Mackay police have been busy attending to several recent assaults, a graffiti incident and shop thefts across the region. Police are appealing for information from the public to help solve these crimes.
Alleged South Mackay assault Police are calling for witnesses to an alleged assault which reportedly occurred about 8.15pm on May 6 in Shakespeare Street, South Mackay. They said a man was travelling in a vehicle and had stopped on Shakespeare Street when multiple motorcyclists approached him. It is further alleged three of the motorcyclists then assaulted the man. Police want anyone who may have witnessed the incident, or who may have relevant dashcam vision, to come forward.
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For more than seven years the former TAFE building on Maryboroughâs Nagel Street has remained empty.
These days it houses rodents and provides temporary solace for wanderers.
Constant break-ins, particularly during school holiday periods, only add to the hefty repair bill.
The Chronicle asked Maryborough MP Bruce Saunders about the future of the block which is owned by the Department of Employment, Small Business and Training (DESBT). Mr Saunders also said heâd like the building to go into either âmanufacturing, business (or), trainingâ, if the current plan falls through.
His feelings about the building remaining vacant were ânot goodâ and he told the Chronicle he âwants it soldâ.
Hero copâs wife: âColleagues blamed me for his deathâ Slain police hero Brett Forteâs grieving widow Susan Forte has revealed how she was harassed by strangers in the wake of her husbandâs killing.
News by Alexandria Utting
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Subscriber only The grieving widow of slain Queensland Police hero Brett Forte has sensationally revealed she was blamed her for her own husband s death and harassed by members of the public who claimed the killer was a hero . Also a police officer in Toowoomba, Senior Constable Susan Forte revealed colleagues laid blame on her after she was the first person to identify the man, who in a cruel twist of fate would later kill her husband, as a risk to the public.