Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) is the police tactical group of the Queensland Police Service (QPS) and also provides a high angle rescue response. [3] SERT provides the QPS with the ability to respond to high risk situations incidents statewide. [2]

It involved the killing of police constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, and civilian Alan Dare, at a rural property in Wieambilla, a locality in Queensland.

Aug 13, 2024 · Three "radicalised" conspiracy theorists who gunned down two police officers and their neighbour believed they were in a "final battle" as "the end" arrived, a Queensland court has heard. On December 12, 2022, four officers were ambushed at a Wains Road property at Wieambilla, and a mammoth inquest into the shootings is now in its third week.

Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) is the Police Tactical Group of the Queensland Police, Australia. SERT is part of the Specialist Response Branch within the Operations Support Command which incorporates the Explosive Operations Response Team (Bomb Squad) and the Negotiator Coordination...

Aug 7, 2024 · Vision released by Queensland police shows dramatic moments during the final shootout after a six-hour siege at Wieambilla in December 2022. He noted measures like beanbag rounds were inaccurate at the range where officers were, and attempts to use them would expose them to life threatening danger.

Dec 15, 2022 · Matthew Arnold, 26, Rachel McCrow, 29, Keely Brough, 28, and Randall Kirk, 28, were on Monday afternoon sent to an address in Wieambilla, about 300 kilometres north-west of Brisbane, for a welfare check on a missing New South …

Jul 31, 2024 · A man who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with his neighbour when he was gunned down by three shooters at Wieambilla, has told an inquest more people could have died …

Dec 12, 2022 · A major investigation is underway after tactical police officers killed three suspects believed to be linked to the ambush and execution-style death of two cops in their 20s and a neighbour in a rural Queensland town.

Four officers, all aged under 30, were called to Wains Road in Wieambilla, about four hours drive from Brisbane, to conduct a welfare check on Monday afternoon. Within minutes, two of them would be dead, and a third shot and a fourth running for her life into the bushland.

Aug 11, 2024 · Evidence of their modifications was first detected in October that same year, with some footpad development of the surrounding bush visible from the air. A distinctive “square-shaped” feature was also detected – indicating the area was being developed as an “observation point” that was being progressively camouflaged.