 Police in command in Queensland. Thank you for coming this morning and welcome and wish you all a merry Christmas. Where do you want to go? A bit of feedback there for you. Look road safety is everybody's responsibility every day. Queensland Police Service asks all motorists, all people using the roads in any way over the next few days to be conscious of their own safety, to make wise decisions and to enjoy the festive season by getting to where they want to go and enjoying the festive period with people they want to meet. So again, please use the road safely. It's your responsibility and we encourage you to make good decisions over the festive season. I think you can expect to see the police in a whole range of activities over the next few days and certainly in relation to random breath testing. I myself was breath tested at eight o'clock this morning as I moved around the city. So far during the national campaign period we've done over 5,000 random breath tests in Queensland. These figures will be updated every day but random breath testing is important but so too are other measures in terms of road safety. You need to wear your seatbelt. Don't be distracted whilst you're driving. If you're fatigued definitely don't drive a car and most importantly drink driving and speeding our killers. So take care, be safe and enjoy the holiday period. Traditionally you guys normally see a bit of a pattern emerging as to the stakes of the police and people making that year. What have you noticed around this time of year, this time? Is there any one crime or one incident you're standing at? Look there's been a very sad trend over the last few weeks here in Brisbane in relation to pedestrian fatalities. They are you know totally avoidable and we would ask people no matter what they're doing on the roads whether they're driving, they're a pedestrian, they're a motorcyclist, they're a truck driver, whatever you're doing. Road safety is your responsibility every day and we would ask you to bear that in mind. Do you think one of the reasons for that is pedestrians are taking less and less notice inattention maybe on their iPhones or on their iPads or whatever they're listening to? The circumstances we've seen in the last few weeks are a bit different for each one but there is a trend in relation to people not taking respect, enough respect for the vehicles that are on the road and assuming that they will be safe. So if you're a pedestrian and you're moving around on the roads make sure you're aware of what's happening around you and that you're responsible for your own safety. How hard is it for you as a senior officer to make sense of seeing some of these fatalities? We saw it in Toowoomba only a few days ago like it was test at 0.26 or something on a motorbike that's just out of control. Well look at this time of year unfortunately we need to highlight random acts of stupidity basically. We get people who take unnecessary risks who are reckless and who are dangerous. There was a gentleman only recently detected at 174 kilometres an hour he had a blood alcohol reading of 0.074 that's just stupid it's reckless and it's dangerous. How many years have you been running a campaign on this? Have you seen a change in attitude? The national campaigns have been running for many years this year in Queensland is the first year that we've been able to apply the road policing command model to our road safety campaigns and that's the road policing command started on the 1st of July. Last week on Friday of last week we operated Operation Plough which was an opportunity for us to task all motorcycles in Queensland and also some additional vehicles to the roads in a highly visible way. There are over almost 600 hours of traffic enforcement applied across the state and that's what we're about it's about enforcement but it's also about visibility and our presence and if our presence encourages people to be safe and be responsible that's a great outcome. What is the road policing command and how is it different? Road policing command has bought the former traffic branches across the state together under one centralised command and it allows us to manage those resources in a strategic way and to get the best outcome out of our staff so you will see a repeat of that operation over the next few weeks as we go into the return home after new year and also into the back to school program. On a related topic people that were run over on the Gold Coast on the beach what is your message to drivers or beachgoers there? Well the roads are the obvious places where people drive cars but we also see people use motor vehicles in a range of different places which are technically roads or authorised motorways so no matter how you're using a vehicle whether it be on a road off road whether it be a tractor a car a motorcycle if you're using a vehicle make sure you know what's happening around you and apply that standard measure of what's the safest thing to do. What's the Queensland stands for body test? Are you getting that? Is it coming through your microphones? Do you want to just stop? I hope it's not the Easter Bunny anyway.