Benjamin Suckling

The role of the Capalaba Division shift supervisor is to provide 24-hour support and guidance to operational police on the road throughout operational leadership and management:

• Conduct daily shift briefing to rostered staff and support units, liaise with the DDO and Comco and review Local Computer Aided Dispatch (LCAD), give clear and concise directions to crews as to what is expected during the shift and tasks to be completed
• Ensure compliance with service policy and procedures including the provisions of the Code of Conduct and the Code of Dress and Appearance
• Provision of corrective action or guidance to staff where appropriate
• Ensure all notifications of injury in custody incidents involving staff are recorded/reported appropriately
• Ensure compliance with duty of care provisions and procedures
• Provision of active on road leadership, support and guidance to staff utilising knowledge of relevant legislation, OPMs and/or division specific policies/procedures
• Provide quality and timely advice in both oral and written forms of communication related to police powers and procedures
• Personally deal with complaints against staff members and communicate the process and contact District Duty Officer if required.

The Officer in Charge (OIC), Sergeant at Macleay Island position requires all the skills relevant to a Sergeant Shift supervisor, whilst also working from a community policing framework. This involves collaborative approach between law enforcement and the community to address crime, disorder, and community safety concerns. The function of this role aims to build trust, communication, and cooperation between police officers and the community they serve:

• Provide high quality service delivery that establishes and maintains community stakeholder partnership building
• Uphold regular communication, collaboration, and cooperation between law enforcement and various community parties including residents and rental agencies, businesses, schools, local government, and community welfare organisations
• High level of collaboration with community members to identify local issues and develop strategies to address them effectively from a problem-solving orientation approach
• Develop preventative strategies for reduction of underlying causes of crime and disorder through proactive engagement, educational programs, targeted interventions, outreach programs and stakeholder collaboration
• Delivery of policing strategies that are sensitive to cultural differences and, implement and maintain training in cultural competency and diversity awareness to ensure services that are responsive to the needs of diverse communities
• Maintain high levels of accountability and transparency both within the policing division and across stakeholder engagement, by facilitating mechanisms for community feedback to ensure service delivery is responsive to community needs and concerns.

Senior Sergeant, Officer in Charge Redland Bay Station involves a high level of leadership, operational expertise, commitment to serving the community, and upholding the values of QPS:

• Manage 30 sworn and unsworn staff, by providing strategic leadership, effective management of workloads and output, policy compliance, completion of Development and Performance (DAP) process in alignment with QPS’ core capabilities, provision of professional development and training, delegation of guidance and mentorship to junior staff via station Sergeants, and fostering positive work environment conducive to high performance and morale
• Provide operational oversight for all daily functions, eg coordinating patrols, incident response, resource management, task completion efficiency and staff performance management if required, oversight and delegation of fair and manageable workloads, crime prevention planning and strategy implementation, record maintenance, report preparation and liaising with higher-level command staff
• High level of coordination and management of all resource allocations specific to Redland Bay Station, oversight of personnel training schedule in order to avoid conflict with individual task management, prioritizing and delegating workload to ensure effective use of individual and team capabilities, ensuring equipment and budgetary management aligns with corporate strategy whilst also improving service delivery
• Identify and manage all of the stations operational risk portfolios, identify and mitigate risks within the stations operations, compliance with relevant laws and regulations, implementing OPMS (not sure f this is right term here), and ensuring measures to minimize risks to personnel, the public and property
• Ensure high quality response to critical incident management via coordinating response efforts of the station and collaborating with other agencies to manage situation effectively.

• Provision of various general, specialist, and community policing tasks across multiple regions, to prevent, disrupt, respond and investigate crime within the varying operational mechanisms and delegations of each individual role.
• Further information available upon request.