 Thank you again for my thanks to all of you for being here. Today for us and the police department is the most important and significant day of the year. 29th of September each year is the day when we remember and pay tribute to those police officers who have given their lives and the cause of their duty in providing for the safety and security of the people of Queensland. And today particularly we remember sadly two of our own in the last 12 months for us. The 12 months, here's the 12 months from the 29th of September each year. And firstly that the sergeant Daniel Stiller, who was killed on the 1st of December last year inducting a white lad escort in Central Queensland. And six months to the day later with us, Detective Senior Constable Damien Leading on the 1st of June this year, Damien died after having been shot three days earlier being the first to respond to police officers to an armed robbery in Prague with civic crimes happened in the Gold Coast hinterland. Both Damien and Damien were two of the finest, most decent people of your ever wish to have to meet. They were also outstanding police officers. They gave their lives providing for the safety and security of the people of Queensland and particularly others. Today as we have in the past we pay tribute to them again and the 137 other Queensland police officers have also given their lives in the course of their duty over time. The total here is 139. I wish and hope that that total would never grow. That never again would we have to add to the list of names of officers killed on duty. But I also know and we all know in the police department the practical reality of that is the fact that you can't do a job that provides for the safety and security of others in the world and the environment we live in without putting your own safety at risk no matter how capable the officers are. There comes a time when the dark forces of faith combine in particular time places and for us our worst time is with us in a loss of equality. I'd also like to pay tribute today to the police officers throughout Australia as well. Dan and Damian's names this morning in a dorm service were added to the list at the National Police Memorial in Canberra. Dan, Dan Stiller was number 749 and Damian Leading was number 750. So in total the 750 officers throughout Australia here we also remember the day. Thank you and happy to take any questions. Commissioner it's, is it particularly hard for Queensland this year two deaths in Queensland none in any other state or even New Zealand? That's correct. It's the case of course that we wish that we could go through every year and any given year without anyone being lost at all. So we would never want to lose anyone. We didn't want to lose our two officers. We're grateful that in every other jurisdiction and in New Zealand no police officers have been killed on duty this year. We only wish it hadn't happened here. At three years our last officer was Fred Irwin who was shot in the field in 2007 and we're always grateful that every year that goes by that we don't lose anyone but regrettably that risk is always going to be there. Damian Leading's death is obviously really tragic and in such violent circumstances do you think that that has brought it home for a lot of Queenslanders because I think there are a lot of sort of members of the general public today with flowers and a part of the service? We're always grateful when we lose an officer. We're always grateful for the community support and that particularly in the local community where the officer is from is always quite significant. But even we I guess were just completely overcome almost really with the huge response from the public and the community that was generated after the death of the particular senior constable Damian Leading we are extremely grateful for that support. Damian's death seemed to touch the floor. I thought there were quite a few messages in there. I thought it was the community saying we support you. I thought as well I'll be talking about this and Sonia, Sonia Leading Damian's wife were they had two children. Hudson was nearly two when he was killed in his race. He was only a few months old. So I think that over to it was you know young people, young families and it certainly was something though that was quite extraordinary to see and it was an outpouring of grief and support that we indeed were extremely grateful for and meant a lot to the family and meant a lot to other officers. There were family members here from officers who were killed ten years ago. Obviously through ongoing support from the police service and obviously due to the police officers' thousands as well is that something that you can promise to the leaders of the officers on which day that in ten years time you'll still be there and helping others as much as now? Well I certainly believe so and I hope so. Culture and tradition are important parts of any organisation for the police department. Culture and tradition are really important and in my view you can't ask people to go and do the work that they do to provide for the protection of the board of community put their own safety at risk and in some places give their lives up and it's just another job that there has to be more on that. There has to be a sense about it that we value people and when we say things like you're part of a police family and we'll never forget you and we'll look after your family and it's a treat and a reality to that and I believe there is, I believe there is and we're also very grateful for the support of the community in the role of the media and letting the public and the community know about some of these things it's so important as well. So a day of mixed emotions for us it's really important to do this I thought the service today in the March for fine tributes to all 139 officers but what is important is that we continue to do this each year and continue to do it on a daily basis in terms of the support to the families. How aware are the police officers of the West End Base in the time they're going to Toronto? Is that the forefront of their minds? It's a really good question, I thank you for asking it. Every time a police officer starts a shift they don't know what's going to happen. In some ways that's part of the enjoyment of being a police officer. It's the challenge of not knowing what you're going to confront and the challenge of being able to meet and deal with whatever that is but there is that sense of uncertainty and you can never take away the risk and danger. But what is important though is that they have to back themselves they have to be confident in their ability to deal with whatever they confront. If they didn't then that wouldn't be a good thing at all they'd go out and they'd be uncertain they'd be unsure and you can't have that set aside the dangers. Police officers when they start each shift have to be confident, not arrogant or overconfident, a regal testable but they have to be quite confident in their ability to deal with whatever they face and confront. Without that you wouldn't have the quality of person that you need as a police officer.