Warwick Police District to merge into Toowoomba
WARWICK'S police will be merged with Toowoomba, after the Queensland Police Service's restructure came into effect yesterday.
The new structure includes the reduction of the state's police districts from 31 to 15 and regions from eight to five.
Police Commissioner Ian Stewart said communications had improved since the former police boundary map was implemented after the Fitzgerald Inquiry into police corruption.
"The reason we are able to go to those larger sizes is that when we put the map together about 20 years ago, just after Fitzgerald, we didn't have the communications technology we have today," he said.
Under the restructure, 332 staff left QPS, including 86 sworn police officers who took voluntary redundancies.
The restructure is meant to strengthen the front line and pull officers from backroom and administrative duties onto the street.
