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Three city venues under scrutiny as three close on the Gold Coast l CAIRNS REGION | Nick Dalton THREE police beats in Cairns are under threat after the Queensland Police Service would not rule out closures at Cairns Central and Earlville Shopping Town shopping centres and on the Esplanade. The police have already secretly closed three on the Gold Coast at Broadbeach, Southport and Robina shopping centres. The service admits that the beats in Cairns are being assessed. “The Queensland Police Service (QPS) continues to evaluate its service delivery models, including existing residential and police beat locations, to ensure the proactive delivery of efficient and effective policing services,” a police
media spokeswoman said. “The Cairns West Police Facility, including the new mobile police beat, will provide a new frontline facility and police operations for the West Cairns area,” she said. “In the Far North district, shopfront police beats are operational at Cairns Central, Cairns City (Esplanade) and Cairns Stockland (Earlville Shopping Town). “Any transition of existing facilities to mobile police beats is undertaken after extensive evaluation and consultation with the primary focus on ensuring we deliver modern, mobile and flexible policing options to meet strategic, operational priorities and local community needs. Modern day policing is about having agility in service delivery.” CONTINUED PAGE 3
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THE family of missing Yarrabah teenager Markiah ‘Mackey’ Major wants a reward offered for information about his disappearance. Grandmother Adelaide Sands has written to Mulgrave MP and the Speaker of the House Curtis Pitt seeking his support for the reward. “It’s now eight weeks since Markiah Major (above) was last seen by his family in Yarrabah. This is very disturbing for his family and friends, and has caused his family a great deal of stress, sleeplessness and heartache,” she said. “Since reporting this disappearance to the police there has been a considerable amount of time, resources and publicity given to Markiah’s disappearance, however the leads and information appear to be scant.” Ms Sands said there had been three searches of bushland at Yarrabah, considerable media coverage, including a front page in Cairns Local News, as well as digital billboards on Ray Jones Drive, Mulgrave Rd and at Yarrabah. “Unfortunately, this blanket coverage has not yielded many leads for police and family,” she said. Police say “there are no further updates at this stage”.