 will now receive the host for this ceremony, Chief Superintendent Debbie Glatz, Executive Manager, Education and Training. She'll be met by the Commander, Recruit and Policing Skills Group, Superintendent Andy Moro. By the Commissioner of Police, Mr Ian Stewart. He'll be greeted by the host, escorted to the Dias and received by the Parade with a general salute. Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Services. He'll be welcomed by the Commissioner, escorted to the Dias and accorded a general salute. For the Australian National Anthem, Sung Moa Recruit, Sharni Cruz. Police officers and other uniformed personnel are requested to salute. There was an induction into the Queensland Police Service on the recruits on parade today. I know that many of you have travelled long distances to be here for this very reason. Before a recruit begins to perform their duties as a constable of police, there is a fall process to be applied in accordance with the Police Service Administration Regulation. This practice requires individual recruit to pledge their loyalty to our sovereign Queen Elizabeth II. A member then subscribes to the oath or affirmation of office in the presence of a commissioned police officer. This segment, referred to as an induction, is a transition from the learning environment to being a scorn officer in the Queensland Police Service. As part of the process, each member is presented with a wallet containing their identity card and official police badge. Table officers, please fall in. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the formal undertaking of the oath and affirmation of office by the graduating recruits. The administering of this pledge is delivered by the Commissioner of Police in accordance with the prescribed regulation. I invite my colleagues to reaffirm their allegiance to our sovereign by reciting the oath or affirmation of office in unison with the recruits on parade. Preface by the word I state your given names and surname in full. You are to repeat your oath or affirmation of office after me. Swear by Almighty God that I will well and truly serve my sovereign Queen Elizabeth II, her heirs and successors. According to law in the office of Constable, or in such capacity as I may be appointed, promoted or reduced without favour, affection, malice or ill will, from this date until I am discharged. That I will cause Her Majesty's peace to be kept and preserved, that I will prevent to the best of my power all offences against the secretary. And that, while I am a member of the Queen's Ampli Service, I will to the best of my skill and knowledge discharge all unit legally imposed upon me, faithfully and according to law. So help me God. Thank you, Commissioner Stewart. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you. Please be seated. Take offices, please be seated. Recruits into the service. Their training included instruction in the areas of legislation, over-training, physical skills education, computer training and firearms and officer safety. The facilitators involved in the training of the graduating groups are comprised of sworn police officers with years of operational experience and staff members who come from an academic and instructional background. All facilitators possess the skills required to teach in accordance with the high educational requirements for this training establishment. The intake coordinator is Acting Senior Sergeant Trevor Wendt. Trevor is an experienced police officer with 37 years service. He's a policing skills instructor currently circled into the recruitment training unit, especially design tables that have been made for the ceremonial aspect of the recruits subscribing to their oath of service. These tables have been made from Queensland Blackbutt Timber. The signature metal police badges featured on the front compliment the handcrafted creations. Additionally, a symbolic part of the design and manufacture process was to infuse each table with a small powdered portion from each tree in the avenue of remembrance as a way to honor and remember the service of all the officers who have died in the line of duty serving the state of Queensland. 150 years of exemplary loyal and dedicated law enforcement. The significant icon honors the service given by the men and women who have contributed to helping clean Queensland a safe and secure place to live, visit and do business. It is carrying an all ceremonial praise as a sign of respect given to the citizens of our state. Today's Battle Party is composed of facilitators for the recruit training unit. The privilege of carrying the banner today is given to Sergeant Lisa Duncan. The exports for the banner are Sergeant Peter Mulvey and Sergeant Janet Woodhouse. All serving police officers were presented with the Queensland Police Service 150 year citation by the Commissioner of New England. Today the graduating constables are also being presented with a citation. The citation has an internal blue and white checkered ribbon surrounded by an antique silver metallic frame. The blue is the same color used in all Queensland Police Service insignia given in recognition of ethical and dilative service. The checkered design is traditional and used to represent police. Etched into the metallic frame are the words Queensland Police printed above the color and the numerals 1864 to 2014 written below. At the sesquicentennial anniversary of our organization, a book has been produced by our museum curator, is Lisa Jones and her staff. The book is titled Policing Queensland 1864 to 2014 150 years. This manuscript captures a pictorial history of operational policing and other related events as the organization evolved throughout the period. The book available in hard or soft color will make a great gift, especially for the graduating constables who are commencing their new careers. It's available for sale today and the commissioner will be available to sign your copy if you wish to purchase a record of our history recipients on their achievements during the recruitment program. These recruits are Ducks Award, Craig Buddy, Leadership Award, Benjamin Connell, Achievement Award, David Jones, Operational Skills Award, Kelsey Martin, Traffic Award, Darren Goodman, Physical Skills Award, Helen Goodie and Community Service Award, Joint Recipients, Hayley Robinson and Ryan Pachanon. Congratulations to all our award recipients. Commissioner Stewart will now present his executive award. This honor is given to the individual who has achieved excellence, competency and professionalism in the recruitment program. Assessment is accredited on individual conduct, leadership qualities, skills, performance, academic results and commitment to the ideal principles of service to the community. The commissioners award recipient for intake two of 2014 is possible Christopher Brooks. Ladies and gentlemen, Constable Brooks. The Queensland Police Service Statement of Ethics supports our vision and purpose, the priorities and qualities of the QPS, namely courage, fairness and pride, and to deliver quality policing services. It is a commitment that every member of the service undertakes in accordance with the standard of practice, the code of conduct and the functions of the service under the Police Service Administration Act. The Statement of Ethics is a standard expected by the Commissioner of Police, his colleagues and the greater community, and in acceptance by the individual officer to practice high standards of conduct and behavior as a police officer, both on and off duty. All right, Constable Brooks to adopt the Statement of Ethics on behalf of the Constables on Parade. Part of the new Constables, I am pleased to adopt this Statement of Ethics. As a member of the Queensland Police Service, I have a duty to protect life and property, preserve the peace, prevent offences, detect and apprehend offenders, and help those in need of assistance. At all times, I will carry out my duties without fear or favor, malice or ill will. I will act honestly and with the utmost integrity. I will make every effort to respect and uphold the rights of all people in the community, regardless of race, social status, or religion. I will strive for excellence and endeavor to improve my knowledge and professionalism. I will keep confidential all matters which I learn, they learn in my official capacity, except as necessary in the course of my duties. I will practice self-discipline in word and deed, both on and off duty. I will resist the temptation to participate in any activity, which isn't proper, or which can be construed as being improper. I will not misuse my office for personal gain. I will accept responsibility for my own actions, and for acts which I may order. I accept the desirability of these ethics as an integral part of my personal and professional life. Thank you Constable Brooks. Seeking Willie Stetlund, Reverend Graham Ramston, will now offer the blessing. We notice through establishing process for justice, peace and good order that a caring community works to keep safe those who are vulnerable and innocent. For this reason, we ask your blessing upon these newly graduated Constables as they become sworn members of the Queensland Police Service. We thank you for their willingness to serve the community in this way, and we are thankful for the hard work and personal application they have given of preparing themselves for the duties of being a police officer. We pray they may always exercise the powers of their office with responsibility and they may be aware of the influence they are entrusted with as police officers. Lord, empower these new officers with courage and then confront them by danger. Give them integrity and confront them with ethical choices. Endow them with compassion when assisting those suffering and victimized. Grant them impartiality when enforcing the law and bless them with the willing graciousness to accept assistance they needed. We present with these officers and the challenges of their new profession so that at the end of every shift they have made with confidence and pride, know that they are served with honor. Thank you Reverend Ramstaff. Ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Stewart will now address the break. To our ministers, please find the emergency services, the Honourable Jack Dempsey and Pete. Minister, thank you again for taking the time out of your very busy schedule to be here this afternoon. I know things a lot too, all of us here at the Academy today. To our Chief Human Resource Officer of Public Safety and Business Agency is Patsy Jones. To Deputy Commissioner of Specialist Operations, Mr Ross Barnett, Deputy Commissioner of Strategy and Policy and Performance, Mr Steve Kolczewski. Our Acting Deputy Commissioner for Regional Operations, Mr Peter Martin. To the Representative of the Commissioner of the Queensland Ambulance Service, Assistant Commissioner Peter Warriner. To Commander Senior Naval Officer Southeast Queensland, Mr Peter Tenon. Peter, always a pleasure to have you with us. Thank you. Lieutenant Colonel, representing Commander, Senator Brigade, Mr Ben Swater. Squadron Leader, representing Commander, Combat Support Group, Mr Brett Green. Our host today, Chief Superintendent Deb Platts, Executive Manager of Education and Training. To all of our commissioned officers. To Chaplain Ramston. To all of our distinguished guests who are here today and there are many of them. To police officers, my colleagues and staff members of the Queensland Police Service and members of the Public Safety Business Agency. To families and friends, but most importantly to our 94 newest officers I've prayed before you. Good afternoon. There is one other person that I want to welcome sort of to this parade today. I'd like to acknowledge Jay Steel, one of the Constables on Parade today and his wife Kalina. They had their first child born last night at 5pm. And I'd like you to all join with me welcoming Nixon Oliver Steel. And our best wishes go to Jay and to Kalina and of course to Nixon. It's with great pride and pleasure that I extend a warm welcome to families and friends of our graduating officers who were appointed as first year Constables during the ceremony today. It's certainly one of the four groups that I want to address in my speech today. That is the family and friends. Your loved ones have taken on a difficult, complex, but honorable career. They will have many years ahead of them and they will be subject to many challenges, many decisions that they will have hard decisions they'll have to make. And at the end of the day they'll come home to you, they'll talk to you over time and I would hope that you will continue to provide the love and support that you have that has gotten them to this parade today. And I've only got to look around the audience here today to see the wonderful pride that family and friends have in what's occurring right in front of them, their loved ones being sworn in to this great organization. To our community representatives who are here today, and there are many, late of course by our minister, can I ask you to continue your support for the Queensland Police Service? It is a job which is not a race, or not a quick race, but rather a marathon. And we need the community support to do our job every single day. So I ask the community representatives who are here today to continue with that support of our organization. To all my colleagues who are in the audience today, all members of the Queensland Police Service and all members of the larger Public Safety Portfolio, can I ask you to make sure that you continue to provide the leadership, the mentoring, the nurture that each one of these new officers will need so that they can reach their potential as police officers. Not on behalf of the Queensland Police Service, but on behalf of our entire community in this great state. So as part of your journey, please take on that extra responsibility with this newest group of constables. And finally to our newest constables who are standing here proudly before me. You have been inspired with high ideals and encouraged to achieve the very, very best in this honorable career. Your sense of duty, loyalty and service to all Queenslanders has already been enhanced and strengthened through the training course you've just completed. As Queensland's newest constables, you are well prepared for the challenges that lie ahead in your career as police officers. You should remember you are now the public face of the Queensland Police Service. And I expect all our people to act with courage, fairness and pride. You should have the courage to always honour your oath of office and the statement of ethics that was adopted on your behalf by Constable Chris Brooks, who was the recipient of my commissioners award. You should display fairness and be professional at all times, acting objectively and without bias. Remembering that every member of the public is to be treated, to dignity and respect. Every interaction is an opportunity to build relationships and achieve a positive outcome. You should take pride and place a high value on teamwork, people, our performance and our partnership with our community. Policing, though, can be a dangerous job. You need to accept that there is always an element of risk in police work. You will need to remain vigilant to minimise that risk by avoiding complacency, staying alert and being aware. At various points in your career, you will all be physically, morally and intellectually charged. Have no doubt that if you were not up to that challenge, you would not be standing here before me today. I am extremely confident that the future of policing is in good hands with Constables that have graduated today. Let me conclude today by sincerely congratulating you all on your graduation. You follow in the footsteps of great officers who have set a very, very high standard of courage, fairness and pride. I am sure that you will add to our rich history. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, may I now introduce our principal official guest, the honorable Mr. Jack Dempsey. What a great day to be here at the Oxley Police Academy and a great day to see 94 new recruits with a whole life ahead of them in the Queensland Police Service. Let me first acknowledge obviously, Commissioner Ian Stewart and his wife Carol, Deputy Commissioners, Executive Members of the Queensland Police Service, other commissioned officers, as well as representatives from all the other armed services that we have here today from the Police Credit Union, the Police Union, the Police Commissioned Officers Union, the Retired Police Association, Police Legacy, as well as a number of other members from different community organisations that we have here today. Mums and dads, Peter Plexman and the Pipes and Drums and young Michael and his carer that comes to every every induction parade here at the Academy and always has a smile on his face for the recruits that come before us today. To your loved ones, to your children here in the audience, anyone who I may have not have acknowledged because the 94 recruits that we have to hear before you here today, all of these people are here because they believe in you and they want to see you succeed. They want to see you become the finest you can be as officers, not just for their family but serving the people of Queensland. In the 80s I had the privilege of going across this sacred acre, being sworn in here and then leaving a little Shetland pony called Laguna Flash and heading on to a career in the Queensland Police Service and just like you, I swore an oath to serve the people of Queensland without favour, affection, malice or ill will and certainly no one gave me the power of hindsight or a crystal ball and I left here, it's like you's here today, with the same authority as your number one police officer, the commissioner to take away the rights and liberties of Queenslanders and with that comes a great deal of responsibility on those sets of shoulders that we have here before us. But I know the train that you've got from your excellent instructors here, because I knew they flogged the hell out of me anyway when I was here, but the part from that is I know that they've moulded you into some great officers and you are Queensland's finest. And here today, as the 94 recruits, you are a group of other recruits this year in the 150th year of policing. And when we think of 150 years as a nation, we are a young nation, a young state. And as a police service 150 years ago, we came from very humble beginnings. And now we are leading the rest of the states and territories in this nation, as well as other police forces right around the whole of the world in the way that we lead with our technology, as well as our legislation. But most importantly, the character, the professionalism, the ethics of the police officers that are inside those blue uniforms. Signed, symbols, traditions are what makes the Queensland Police Service strong now, but also stronger for the next 150 years ahead. So I thank each and every one of you for the challenges. It will be hard. You'll see the best of the best and you'll see the worst of the worst what Queensland can put before you. But I know that the support that you'll get, whether it be from Graham, our police chaplain, or other members in our HR divisions, but most importantly from your parents, your friends, your family, your loved ones, that you'll get through things and see the bright side of the day ahead. I do implore each and every one of you before you go start that shift at the beginning of the day that you never leave home in anger. Always finish whatever you need to do before you go to work. Your loved ones certainly will help you in that regard. But it's incumbent on you to ensure, to have that professionalism, to have that high standard when you go and serve the people of Queensland, that you're not just representing you and your family, you're representing all of the other police officers that came before you. And it is a difficult task. We know now with modern, you know, mediums, social mediums and so forth, all your actions are recorded and scrutinised the finest. But the end of the day, as we all teach our young children, our young recruits is to do the right thing. It's quite easy at times. You know when to do the right thing. The other thing you get taught in here is if you don't know the right thing, you shouldn't be here. But if you do ask someone, I'll soon tell you. So I certainly know that we've got 94 strong, committed police officers. I wish you all the best in the future. I thank your families and friends. And I say welcome to the Queensland Police family. Thank you. The parade will now retire and reform. This movement involves the constables marching back in line, advancing and conducting addressing and preparation to perform the closing segment of the ceremony. This movement involves the constables marching forward in line, concluding with a general salute. This is performed with no offensive spirit and is given as a mark of respect to the Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Services, Commissioner of Police and members of the senior leadership team. Inspector Derek Cahns will now resume command of the parade. Ladies and gentlemen, the Bannapani, accompanied by the Queensland Police Pipes and Drums, will now march off parade to QPS 150. Will you please stand as constables of the Queensland Police Service? All the constables that are dismissed may I thank you once again for being here with us this afternoon. At the conclusion of the parade, please feel free to move onto the ground to congratulate the men and women who will now join their colleagues serving the people of Queensland. The parade host, Chief Superintendent Debbie Glatt, would then like to invite you for like refreshments to be served in the Academy dining room. On behalf of the Commissioner and members of the Queensland Police Service, I thank you for your attendance and wish you a safe journey home. Constable Condon will now lead the new members in thanking you for their own special work. He will then dismiss the parade.