‘Proven effective’: Miles government ‘massively expanding’ police operation

Queensland Premier Steven Miles says the trialling of ‘Operation Whiskey Legion’ has proven effective and therefore the government will be “massively expanding it”. Mr Miles says Queensland police have assured him that they “have the numbers and the resources to deliver on a big ramp-up of this operation”. “We’ve been trialling this high intensity, high visibility policing and it has proven effective and so we’re expanding it,” Mr Miles told Sky News Australia. “We’re massively expanding it with Operation Whiskey Legion, it’s about getting police into regions using intelligence to predict future Operation hotspots, intervening early, identifying risky offending and getting in there with those offenders before their offending escalates. “It’s proven effective already, we’ve seen a turning of crime statistics in twelve of our fourteen regions, but we have a long way to go.”