 Opportunity to recap the events road safety wise that occurred in Queensland over the year 2012, the year just gone. There's been some highs and some lows, been a mixed bag. Unfortunately, 279 people died on Queensland roads. A combination of motorcyclists, car drivers, truck drivers, pedestrians. But the important thing is each of them had family, each of them had friends. 279 people are no longer with us, they were with us this time last year. That total is 10 higher than for the same period last year. So it's a sad thing, it's a somber figure. Comparatively speaking, it's the third lowest road toll in Queensland since accurate statistics were counted. That's a very good thing. But nevertheless, it has been a very, very bad year for so many families and so many friends on Queensland roads. Now what is important of course is that we're now in the Christmas road safety campaign, so that's Christmas and New Year. And that will run up until the third of this month. So far, five people have been killed over that time. It's tragic to lose anyone on the road, it's especially tragic to lose someone on the road over the Christmas period. It makes future Christmases so much harder for family and friends. We would urge people, as they think about their return to work, they think about their return after the Christmas holiday break, to please approach your driving carefully. We've had far too many instances of people willfully and flagrantly putting their own lives at risk. So far in this Christmas holiday period, there have been over 50 people apprehended or photographed exceeding the speed limit by greater than 40 kilometres per hour. Now that's significant. One of the higher speeds we had recorded over this break, in fact over the last 24 hours, was a speed of 164 kilometres an hour on the Logan motorway. Now that's a dangerous thing, a very dangerous speed for people travelling out on the roads. Even more alarming, over the Christmas holiday campaign so far, over 600 people have been intercepted in relation to drink driving offences. And over 30 have been intercepted in relation to drug driving offences. So these are people who are willfully putting the lives of others at risk on our roads. And it's very important from an enforcement perspective that we mobilise all the resources we have to be in a position to apprehend as many drink drivers as we can. I think the message from this is, if you are going to be drinking and driving over this Christmas holiday break, you are at very great risk of being intercepted. But what's more important is that you're putting people's lives unnecessarily at risk. Do you have any questions you'd like me to run with? There was an incident at the early hours of this morning at an RBT site. As you said, in that incident we understand that a motorist initially complied with the requirement to stop. There was a conversation with the officers. We will allege that immediately following that short conversation, a driver left that site at speed. The vehicle was subsequently disabled by means of a stinger tideflation device. The vehicle continued on for a brief period and later two men were apprehended on foot in the proximity of where the vehicle was left abandoned. One person has been issued with a notice to appear for evade a police offence and another male person was also given a traffic infringement notice. In relation to damage to police vehicles, there was no police vehicles damaged in that incident. But of course our major concern is that if drivers fail to comply with instructions of police at roadside birth testing locations, they put our officers' lives at risk, they put other motorists' lives at risk and of course they put their own lives at risk. There is potential for things to go seriously wrong in circumstances when vehicles are being intercepted and drivers disobey the careful instructions provided to them by the police. I can tell you that with all fatal crashes there's a full and comprehensive investigation that's undertaken by our forensic crash unit. And obviously there is a great deal of work to be done for the coroner given that two people have lost their lives in such a tragic way. This happened in the early hours of this morning. Again it happened at Silkstone, the Eripswich. Two people were killed when a vehicle appeared to have lost control. It crashed across a footpath through a number of, to I understand, house yards colliding with a number of obstacles along the way. Two people were killed as a result and a third man was conveyed to hospital for treatment. That person's condition we understand is stable at this time. But of course that is a very bad start to 2013 when only a matter of hours into the new year two people have been killed on our roads. I haven't got their ages with you, they were young males but I haven't got the exact ages with me. I can't go into that, I don't have that information but I wouldn't really be prepared to comment on that anyway. Well the forensic crash unit will look at that in detail. At this stage a number of lines of inquiry are fairly obvious to us. One of course will be the issue of excessive speed. Whether or not there was excessive speed will be something the forensic crash unit will be able to verify, confirm as a result of measurements etc. But at this stage that is one of the lines of inquiry we're looking at. Well I think there's a number of factors at work here. One is that we have recently I guess acquired new equipment. As you know we have a fleet of undercover covert vehicles that we're using. Our traffic cameras are being deployed on an intelligence basis and they're also being employed randomly which means that there's a mix. The underlying theory of course is an anywhere anytime approach so that in a way addresses in part the speeding. The use of our resources intelligently around the states not just the regional resources but also the resources from the state traffic support bridge supplementing regional resources we would like to think has a positive influence and a positive impact. I would like to think though underlying all of this is hopefully an awareness amongst the community that driving a motor vehicle is an extraordinary potential an extraordinarily dangerous thing. The capacity for a motor vehicle to cause harm to other road users is quite exceptional and it's probably the riskiest activity that most people undertake in their lives given the potential for what can happen if things go wrong. But the important thing is that 2012 was behind us. It's finished. There's nothing we can do about that. 279 people are dead and there are thousands of people who've been injured. Some of them seriously. Everything from brain injuries to amputations to spinal injuries. There are a lot of people out there who are going to go through the rest of their lives bearing scars from crashes that occurred in 2012. That's behind us. There's nothing we can do to change that. But what motorists can do and what we as police can do is ensure that there is focus on road rules. Concentration on people, concentration on driving is one of the big things that we really need to get across to people. We have introduced the fifth of the fatal five which is driver distraction and we urge people to think about that carefully. It's not just mobile phones. It's more than mobile phones. It's all the other distractions that can occur in a car. Everything from adjusting settings through to shuffling iPods through to using mobile phones, all potentially distracted driver and negatively impact the sort of concentration that a person needs to get through what is quite a complex task and becoming more so as our vehicle fleet and our population in the state increases. I can't give you that information yet. It's still being investigated. My latest information is the investigations are currently being undertaken to establish precisely who the driver was, who of the three was the driver at the time. Look, I don't have those statistics with me now so I can't tell you whether we're seeing an increase or not but what I can tell you is that any one of these sorts of incidents, any one is potentially very, very dangerous and can lead to one of our officers being struck. It can lead to a vehicle pulling out into traffic and causing a crash so there's a real potential for people to become seriously injured simply by not listening to the instructions provided by police and it's a very dangerous thing to do in a situation like that. I think it's around about the 3 a.m mark from memory. Anything else for me? All done. Thanks. Have a new year everybody. No, we'll give the music a miss. No race look, thanks very much everyone for coming along and happy new year to you all. I just want to give a bit of a wrap up about New Year's Eve festivities across the state and particularly in the Brisbane South Bank area. Last night we saw a number of festivities that ran across the state and generally the number of revelers were down on the numbers we had last year. As such the number of arrests of offenders were down as well and generally we saw a very, very well behaved community group in the various party areas, party precincts where events were being held. I think this is attributed to a number of things. One is the awareness in which year people and media have facilitated our messages out to the community. I think the joint work with community members, groups, businesses, Brisbane City Council, state government departments and emergency services departments in providing a safe environment for the members of the public has contributed to what's occurred this year. There were a number of incidents overnight. It was reported in the Curio Mail this morning about seven stavings. Well, on looking at those incidents we have of the seven stavings. There was five incidents, Harvey Bay, Rabina, Kabulcha. Of those two were domestic violence-related matters and three are matters where all the offenders have been captured. The other three matters will be alleged to the victims and offenders who are intoxicated. So those matters have been solved and people are currently awaiting to go to the courts with respect to them and I can't comment on them too much further due to that occurring. Most of the arrests were made for public disorder, public nuisance type offences, obstruct police, general sort of charges which relate to entertainment type events. So in summing up there, we're very pleased with last night the way it was run, the way the public heated our warnings and I think it was a pretty successful night statewide. I haven't got the statewide offences but in the Brisbane area alone we had Brisbane, that's the Brisbane Central District Entertainment Precinct and South Bank. We had only 62 arrests on 89 charges. Surface Paradise where there's approximately 50,000 revelers had 184 persons arrested on 218 charges and as I said most of those offences were arrest for public nuisance type related offences. There was a number of drug charges but significantly low number compared to other street offence type offences. I haven't got the actual figures there but what I can say is that the number of people out and about in those areas, Surface Paradise, South Bank and the Brisbane Central District is considerably lower than last year and as such the arrests and charges were a little bit lower than last year. Well the information that was fed back to us last night there's approximately 65,000 people in the South Bank area and I believe from last year it was around the 80,000 people there. Feedback from the Brisbane Central District the Fortitude Valley and the city indicates there was not much more than the normal Saturday night type crowd down there. Yes, the media unit onto that at the present time so they'll have a bit of a comparison they'll be putting in another media release shortly comparing the stats from this year to last year. They were but as I said there was no major incidents in the Gold Coast in that Surface Paradise area involving Revellers last night. The other matters I spoke about initially concerning stabbings and that were away from the entertainment precincts in the Gold Coast area or Surface Paradise area and the South Bank, Brisbane Central District areas. It's hard to make a comparison like that. From what I saw last night there was two sorts of crowds at South Bank. We had the families and that were the present for the 830 fireworks and then we saw a dispersant of those sort of family members and then an older sort of crowd. Less families at the midnight fireworks. Excellent. The use of the public transport the manner in which the Q rail trains link and the buses emptied people out of the city worked very, very effectively. People leaving the South Bank area worked well. We had the Victoria Bridge closed down through to traffic but buses still had access there at the conclusion of the midnight fireworks there. People complied very well in leaving that area. A lot of people spilled into the City Valley area getting public transport. Also the trains over near the South Bank area were utilised so I think it was a period of about 45 minutes that most people had dispersed that South Bank area with our incident which was very, very impressive. So was the message getting across it? It worked. The non-drinking area at South Bank worked very, very well. It was only a, I believe it was 22 evictions for people that were found in possession of alcohol at South Bank. So the message got out really well and the public complied with that message of it being an alcohol-free zone. The Ashton Warwick Old Cross? There was an incident at a private residence down there at Ashmore. It was a party. We were one male. He was sustained injuries to the upper arms and torso and he's currently in the Gold Coast Hospital but three people have been taken into custody. I'm not aware of four people being stabbed there at all. Three people have been taken into custody and assisting police with enquiries currently. The stomping on the head was occurred at licensed premises at closing time at Upper Coombrough. I was at a dispute there between two patrons. One male has been charged with grievous bodily harm this morning and will appear in courts in the future. Are you aware of a serious assault and service paradise precinct among serious injuries to his head just after the numbers? No. Police media are following that one up. We were advised about that before and police media are chasing that one up for you. The other one we just got word on was a glassing in a Caston Street establishment. Is that included in the number of stabbing? I'm not aware of that one either. I'm sorry, at this time. What about the regional? From all accounts, police media are going to touch later in the day on what occurred in the regional areas but from what I've been advised is very similar to what happened down here. The numbers were down a bit. Crowds were well behaved and the night went off pretty well without too many hitches at all. We've been asking ourselves the same question as to why it's down. Whether it's the time of the week that New Year's Eve's fallen at the weekend and Monday being a work day where a lot of people are still away whether people have been away to other areas whether people are staying home and entertaining with friends at home or couldn't give you an accurate reason as to why the numbers are down. The services were certainly provided out there and we had, as I said, yes, though, had extra police on duty. Train travel, bus travel, translate travel for Rebels to get home. Everything was put in place and, well, talking the numbers that I've just mentioned and the arrests you work at a percentage wise not much for mathematician but if you work at the percentage wise I think the grading and the behaviour of the public at these particular sites I'd be given at least 80 out of 10. I think people have looked after their friends like we advertised. We saw ourselves a number of people led away by friends and taken away that were intoxicated. The number of assaults on victims within the entertainment precinct very, very low. We only had one at South Bank. It was a bodily harm. We had a robbery of violence in the city which who were offenders were arrested. Now those statistics are outstanding for the number of people in such a defined area. I think the message is getting out there. People just wanted to go out, enjoy themselves, enjoy the fireworks, enjoy other people's company and that's what it's all about. Celebrating safely. There is, there is some violent levels of violence out there and again, you know, intoxication plays a part in that. But again, we haven't got violent offenders out running around the street. We said a lot of the violence that we saw last night in relation to the stabbings we've discussed in the stomping the offenders have been arrested and charged or currently being interviewed. I think it's a fact of life. I think where there's alcohol served you've always got that possibility of offences occurring. But in saying that too, I think liquor licensing laws and the work of licensees and security companies on license premises has significantly reduced those type of things on license premises. I couldn't tell you exactly on that but police media will have something out later on. Will you be able to make your own judgement on that? It was a female there that had a handbag stolen. Two offenders looked it down and grabbed the handbag and decamped and the police located them. They've been charged and the property was recovered. That was after the fireworks there this morning. I believe it was Adelaide Street. But look, I think the big thing to take away from it is the concerted effort of everyone including you people in the media and the support we get from the media getting the message out is very, very important. The social media getting the message out is important. I think a lot of people are taking notice of those media's messages and using some common sense when they're going out. They're looking after their friends. They're looking after themselves. They're aware of their environment around and it's quite encouraging to see the results from last night considering the number of people in the media. The media will send out a fire later on to the media outlets just a comparison from the shoot last year. No worries, thank you all. Stay there for a couple of minutes.