The Redlands Branch have been working with Faith Lutheran College at Thornlands to celebrate this year’s NPRD service on 29 September 2021.

In addition to the planned service on 29 September, the College held Police Remembrance services at both Senior and Junior Campuses on Tuesday 14 September as the students will be on school holidays on the 29 September.  The Principal Mr. Shane ALTMANN wanted to give all students the opportunity to pay their respects.  Those services went ahead as planned and I have to admit that everything was beyond my expectations.

I plan on writing up a fairly detailed story on the events as I think it might be worth promoting further through Police Media and / or Police Journal so the idea of having services at schools can be expanded further to include more schools each year.

On Thursday (16 September) I spoke to a journalist Emily LOWE from our local paper Redland City Bulletin and she put together an article about the day.  At present the article is only available to read on line but I have been promised it will be added to a print edition of the paper shortly.

https://www.redlandcitybulletin.com.au/story/7433842/students-remember-fallen-police-officers/?cs=213

It's always nice to see positive press for QPS, we all know how much rubbish they throw in that direction so a positive story is worth sharing.   


Eddie(Secretary – Redlands QRPA)