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Every night and day, men and women of the Queensland Police Service go to work to protect and support the community of Queensland, in often dangerous and trying circumstances. Unfortunately, on some occasions, those brave officers pay the ultimate sacrifice in serving the community.
To recognise the importance of those sacrifices, the QPS has constructed a new Queensland Police Memorial within the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens.
This new Memorial provides a place of reflection for families and friends of officers who, since 1862, have died serving the community of Queensland.
It is located in a location that reflects where the QPS began, right here in the heart of Brisbane.
The original Memorial was dedicated on the 28 April 2003 at 80A George Street, Brisbane.
Due to the decision to re-develop the entire lower end of George Street for the ‘Queen’s Wharf Project’, there was a need to re-locate the Memorial to another location within the Central Business District of Brisbane.
On the 5 November 2016, the original Memorial was de-commissioned and the associated name plates were re-located to the Queensland Police Service Academy at Oxley as a temporary measure whilst the new Memorial was delivered.
In late 2016, Urban Art Projects (UAP) were procured to deliver the new Memorial for the Queensland Police Service.
The Memorial was funded through the Queensland Police Services’ own budget, together with generous donations from the Queensland Police Union of Employees, Queensland Police Commissioned Officers Union of Employees and Department of Innovation, Tourism Industry Development and Commonwealth Games.
The final design incorporates various aspects of symbolism that include 5 individual archways, with 10 pillars representing the 10 ranks within the Queensland Police Service.
The archways reflect the memorial ribbon that officers wear on each National Police Remembrance Day.
The pathway that connects the archways emphasises that no officer or affected family will stand alone.
The granite and naming ‘touch stones’ provide a chequered appearance, that reflects the Sillitoe Tartan, (which is the blue and white chequers that police around the world use).
The pillars of the Memorial display the ‘touch stones’ of officers who have lost their lives serving the community of Queensland.
These ‘touch stones’ are scattered randomly throughout the Memorial to highlight that no matter what rank, years of service or where they served, each officer’s sacrifice is equally significant to protecting the community of Queensland.
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