Covid-19 duties have taken Noosa police across the state as they unite with other police districts to control the spread of the virus.
Senior sergeant Ben Carroll said while meeting their policing commitments locally Noosa police were being deployed from Cape York peninsula to Mt Isa to Brisbane.
Snr sgt Carroll said police had been working in Aboriginal communities on Cape York while they were in lockdown under federal government legislation.
They have been deployed to Mt Isa to ensure border control and were meeting arrivals at Sunshine Coast airport.
Snr sgt Carroll said working with Queensland Health and State Emergency Service police were ensuring entry requirements were being met for every arrival.”We’ve also had officers to hotels for people going into isolation in Kawana and at South Bank in Brisbane, keeping check that people are not going in or exiting,” he said.
“There’s a large contingent doing border control. There were 250,000 entry permits into Queensland last week that had to be checked at checkpoints. We’re doing local Covid work as well monitoring compliance of social distancing. We visited hotel premises and nightclubs last weekend to ensure compliance and they were pretty good.
“It’s a huge effort behind the scenes.”
