Justice and public safety

The safety and wellbeing of Queenslanders is a fundamental priority. We invest in essential police, fire, emergency and disaster-management services, courthouses, and secure youth-detention centres and correctional facilities to ensure safety and justice is delivered fairly.

Thirteen justice and public safety infrastructure priority actions are progressing since the release of the strategy. Highlights include:

• providing $49.1 million to deliver improvements to Domestic and Family Violence facilities at Brisbane, Cairns, Caboolture, Ipswich, Mackay, Maroochydore, Rockhampton and Toowoomba. Construction is now complete at Caboolture and Ipswich
• roll out of the Frontline Activation Support Tool for Queensland (FAST Qld) to 40 brigades, improving how personnel are notified and mobilised for incidents
• opening of the $29.9 million Caloundra South  Emergency Services precinct, co-locating a new fire station, ambulance station and police station to support the growing Caloundra south community
• commenced construction of the Lockyer Valley Correctional Centre, which is nearing completion, delivering more than 1500 beds and employing more than 800 staff, and the new Wacol Youth Remand Centre, which will include 76 beds reducing the number of young people in watchhouses
• progressing two new youth detention centres in Woodford and Cairns to add 120 beds to the state’s youth detention capacity.