Queensland Deputy Police Commissioner Brett Pointing resigns

QUEENSLAND is losing another top cop, further reducing the field of potential successors to the commissioner.

Deputy Commissioner Brett Pointing has served four decades on the force.

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ONE of Queensland’s top police officers is stepping down after 40 years in the job.

Deputy Commissioner Brett Pointing will take leave from today and officially depart the Queensland Police Service in March.

“Brett has taken on a number of significant portfolios over this time and has made a significant contribution to policing in Queensland,” Queensland Police Commissioner Ian Stewart said today.

Mr Pointing described his career as “wonderful”, and said his time as head of the taskforce targeting outlaw motorcycle gangs was one of many highlights.

His career took him across Queensland, with postings in Ipswich, Goondiwindi, Toowoomba, Roma, Rockhampton and the Gold Coast.

Policing has been a proud part of his family, with his brothers, uncle and father, former assistant commissioner Laurie Pointing, all serving.

Mr Pointing will seek other personal and professional opportunities.

His departure removes another name from the list of possible contenders to replace Mr Stewart when he steps down following the Commonwealth Games next year.

Former deputy commissioner Peter Martin, who was also considered a possible frontrunner, departed the Queensland Police Service last month to become the state’s corrective services commissioner.