Communications, Culture and Engagement Division

Our Vision: Empowered and connected people and community

Our Purpose: CCED delivers specialist capabilities to strengthen trust and confidence among our people and the communities we serve.

Community Engagement and Internal Support

Community Engagement and Internal Support is part of the Communications, Culture and Engagement Division.  Our group includes the Community Programs, Prevention Together, Crime Prevention Programs Unit (CPPU), Police Museum, Queensland Police Pipes and Drums (QPPD), Project Booyah, Police Citizens Youth Clubs (PCYC) and Workplace Assessment & Support Team.

Community Programs

Community Programs houses several units in the field of community policing.

Crime Prevention Programs Unit

The Crime Prevention Programs Unit supports Queensland Police Officers in all aspects of delivering the following programs:  

• Neighbourhood Watch program
• LGBTI Liaison program
• Volunteers in Policing program

The Crime Prevention Programs Unit also focuses on the development of policy, training packages, conferences, courses, district campaigns as well as coordination of whole of service reporting and crime prevention research.

Qld Police Museum

We aspire to be an accessible and valued museum of national standing. We explore Queensland’s policing history through the documentation, collection and preservation of policing memorabilia. We use our resources, exhibitions and public programs to investigate and compare issues faced by police officers of times past and of today.

• We promote the QPS, enhance its public image and foster pride in its achievements among current members, ex-members and their families.
• We collect, document, preserve and display the history and traditions of the Queensland Police.
• We promote a better understanding of police services in the wider community by establishing an educational venue for all students from the primary through to the tertiary sector.
• We promote and encourage visits by the wider community.

More information about the Queensland Police Museum

Qld Police Pipes & Drums

The Queensland Police Pipes & Drums (QPP&D) was formed in 1958 by a keen and committed group of police officers who sought to establish a pipe band to represent the Queensland Police Service.

Today the QPP&D performs at official engagements such as police inductions, National Police Remembrance Day, Anzac Day and Government House events where they provide a spectacular addition to formal procedures. They are actively engaged throughout the community, regularly performing at schools, community events, festivals and shows across the state. They work in partnership with other police districts to maximise the delivery of prevention messaging by engaging the community through music.

The QPP&D also tutor the Queensland Police Juvenile Pipes and Drums. Members from 8-17 years of age learn valuable musical skills and develop discipline, respect, commitment, teamwork and a sense of achievement.

QPP&D provide world-class entertainment and are a powerful asset in strengthening and maintaining positive and inclusive relationships between the QPS and our diverse communities. 

Project Booyah

Project Booyah is a Queensland Police, Youth Mentoring Program that utilises adventure-based learning, leadership skills, decision-making and problem-solving exercises, resilience training, policing strategies and family-inclusive principles to help young people aged 4-17 years make better life choices.

Project Booyah is a partnership between the Queensland Police Service (QPS), Police Citizens Youth Club Welfare Association (PCYC), various government and business partners.

The project provides a 16-week community inclusive police mentoring program, a resilience program titled ‘RESPECT’ and a post program follow up called ‘Framing the Future’.

Project Booyah also manages:

• Adopt-a-Cop program
• School Based Police program
• Think U Know program

More information about Project Booyah

Queensland Police Citizens Youth Welfare Association - PCYC Queensland

Established in 1948, the Queensland Police-Citizens Youth Welfare Association (PCYC Queensland) is a not-for-profit organisation with 54 PCYCs across Queensland including six Indigenous PCYCs in remote communities: Napranum, Aurukun, Yarrabah, Doomadgee, Palm Island and Mornington Island.

All PCYCs have a police sergeant on site delivering crime prevention and community engagement programs and activities.  Having QPS officers based inside PCYCs encourages positive relationships in the community and fosters unique interactions and experiences between QPS Officers and young Queenslanders.

PCYC programs and activities include:

• After Dark – a free after-hours sport-based activity program for young people aged 12-18 who are likely experiencing some level of disengagement from community, family or school. The program is designed to empower young people by improving physical health and wellbeing, emotional resilience, self-esteem, and confidence using sport in a safe and structured peer environment.
• Drop In – an initiative to keep young people off the streets and give them a safe place to associated. ‘Drop In’ creates a space for youth workers and local police to get to know young people, build a rapport and discuss issues or problems that may be affecting them. Each club’s ‘Drop In’ has different activity offerings ranging from board games, pool, free wi-fi, card games, video games, air hockey, movies, table tennis, chill out lounges etc.
• Rise Up Be Yourself (RUBY) for women affected by domestic and family violence to build physical strength and confidence.  All programs have an attending female Police Officer who gives offers advice regarding the court processes and assistance in linking them to other support agencies.
• Braking the Cycle (BTC) – a driver mentor program to support young people who, due to financial hardship or social barriers, may otherwise be unable to complete their 100 hours required to obtain a driver’s licence, often required as a prerequisite to employment
• Deep Blue Line – a mentoring program for disengaged youth, led by police officers focusing on life-skills sessions and interactions with mentors based around key learning areas of communication, wellbeing and positive futures

More than 70 Queensland Police Service officers and eight Police Liaison Officers work with PCYC to partner, mentor and inspire young people.  working together through youth development and community engagement to reduce youth offending and build cohesive, resilient communities.

Our crime prevention and youth development programs help more than 50,000 young Queenslanders each year to make positive life choices so they can be the best they can be. 

More information about PCYC Queensland programs and activities 

To contact the State Coordinator for PCYC please email PCYC.StateCoordinator@police.qld.gov.au

Change & Engagement

Change and Engagement performs a vital role supporting our people to be inclusive, adaptable, engaged and informed.

The team manages internal communication activities, assists our members to engage effectively, and provides change management support for strategic and service-wide projects and initiatives. Additionally, the Inclusion, Diversity and Human Rights unit coordinates initiatives that strive to create positive, inclusive, and diverse workplaces, enabling our people to achieve their full potential; and provides oversight of the QPS’ commitment and obligation to Human Rights and associated legislation. Change and Engagement also supports the organisation to make data-informed decisions through the coordination and analysis of the Working for Queensland survey. 

The teams that make up the Change and Engagement function are:

• Inclusion, Diversity and Human Rights
• Enterprise Change Management 
• Strategic corporate communications and engagement
• Working for Queensland.
   

Multicultural Affairs Unit (MAU)

Our purpose

Creating a culturally inclusive, culturally responsive, and culturally capable Queensland Police Service (QPS), together.

Our team

The team includes, Police Liaison and administration staff leading and developing policies and strategies to better serve our multicultural communities and diverse workforce. 

The MAU aims to promote and maintain effective relationships with our diverse communities based on open communication, mutual understanding, respect, tolerance and trust.  

This is in line with the tenets outlined in the Police Service Administration Act 1990 S 2.4.

More information about the Multicultural Affairs Unit.
 

Media and Public Affairs

QPS Media and Public Affairs is responsible for ensuring effective and timely public messaging to keep the community informed about public safety and crime issues as well as other broader issues that impact on the people of Queensland.

The unit maintains the myPolice network and social media sites, including Facebook and X (Twitter), which have become vital tools enabling the QPS to engage with our local communities.

It also has overall editorial responsibility for this site.