Police Beat Shopfronts
For the Queensland Police Service, the re-invention of the 'beat cop' role is enshrined in legislation. That legislation resulted from Recommendation No. 6 of the Fitzgerald Commission of Inquiry which states that:
"Community Policing be adopted as the primary policing strategy (definition of community policing - the police and the community working together to identify opportunities and solve policing problems). "Members of the Service are to act in partnership with the Community at large."
The Police Beat Shopfronts program was launched on 20 December 1992 and is an initiative aimed at providing the people of Queensland with an effective policing presence in shopping centres and central business districts.
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