Qld: Police academy to be bulldozed under coalition: Springborg

AAP General News (Australia)
02-03-2004
Qld: Police academy to be bulldozed under coalition: Springborg

By Janelle Miles, John Sheed and Nikki Todd

BRISBANE, Feb 3 AAP - A coalition government would bulldoze the "cockroach infested"

Queensland police academy and build a new one outside Brisbane, Opposition leader Lawrence
Springborg said today.

The Opposition also promised to increase police by 350 a year from 2006-07 to take
police numbers in Queensland to 10,800 by 2010.

Mr Springborg said a new $40 million state-of-the-art police academy at Gatton, west
of Brisbane, would be paid for by selling off the present site at …