2010/11 Budget Highlights

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Queensland Fire Rescue Service
New and improved fire stations
Funding of $2.5 million has been allocated in 2010-11 to
complete the construction of a new fire and rescue station
at Agnes Water, and to commence a new service through
the construction of new fire stations at Ripley and
Brassall to replace the existing Ipswich fire station.
Commencement or completion of the relocation or
upgrade of stations at Cherbourg, Craignish, Clermont,
Emerald, Noosa, Pullenvale, and Kitchener Street
Toowoomba, to improve service delivery, will also occur
in 2010-11 at a cost of $5.4 million.
To meet the future needs of the Queensland community,
$1.2 million will also be spent on strategic land
acquisitions over the year; while $1.2 million has been
allocated for ongoing improvements to the Queensland
Combined Emergency Services Academy at Lytton.

Incident response will undergo a major boost with
the completion of the roll-out of automatic vehicle
location (AVL) technology to south east Queensland and
expansion of AVL to all urban vehicles outside south
east Queensland; ongoing maintenance and support
for statewide AVL services; upgrades to the Wide Area
Network; installation of radio over internet protocol
(ROIP) technology to enhance regional urban stations
communications with fire communications (Firecom)
centres; and a pilot trial of mobile data incident response,
management and reporting technology.
The QFRS will provide large incident HAZMAT and heavy
vehicle road crash rescue (RCR) capability in the Surat
and Bowen Basins and on major highways in the west.

Queensland Ambulance Service
20 new and improved ambulance facilities
Queensland Ambulance Service infrastructure will be
significantly enhanced with $3.2 million in funding
for six new ambulance stations at Ashgrove/The Gap,
Coomera, Ningi, Pinjarra Hills, Springfield and North
Lakes.
In addition to the new stations, $13.8 million will be
spent on 14 replacement, redeveloped or refurbished
stations.
To further support new and refurbished station facilities,
QAS will begin the planning and purchase of ambulance
staff housing in the Surat and Bowen Basins at a total
cost of $5.8 million.
Work has commenced on the design for the $7 million
Spring Hill emergency complex and ambulance station
redevelopment.

Queensland Police Service

Funding of $50 million to be spent on the continued
development of a state-of-the-art Police Academy at
Wacol.

A capital works budget of $32.2 million to fund
infrastructure projects to address population growth and
improve service delivery. These include construction
of the new Badu Island Police Station, the new Oxley
District Forensic Facility and district support facility in
Townsville, as well as the replacement of Murgon Police
Station and Watchhouse, Camp Hill Police Station
(being built at Carina), Lockhart River Police Station
and the Sunshine Coast District Water Police Facility.

[Stretch]

Interesting about Ipswich.


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[firescan]

Vehicle Locating!!?!?!?! WOOHOO!!!!!!! Gunna make my job a shitload easier.. hey Stretch??? hahaha

[Rohan]

interesting whith the hazmat and heavy road crash rescue at surat and bowen and on the western highways

[Stretch]

Vehicle Locating!!?!?!?! WOOHOO!!!!!!! Gunna make my job a shitload easier.. hey Stretch??? hahaha

Gonna make your job run by computers.

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