Overview
- Police Minister Dan Purdie made the interim appointment directly, bypassing the usual independent merit-based selection panel.
- Pointing will take up the role on Friday and has flagged priorities including cutting car thefts, unlawful entry and robbery, reducing road fatalities, tackling domestic and family violence, and combating child exploitation.
- Outgoing commissioner Steve Gollschewski, retiring after a stage four cancer diagnosis, publicly endorsed Pointing as having “one of the best policing minds in Australia.”
- A former deputy commissioner in both QPS and the Australian Federal Police, Pointing served on the recent 100-day review and says he will carry forward its reform agenda.
- Purdie and Gollschewski said they agreed on Pointing “over coffee” late last week, and Pointing intends to apply for the permanent role when it is advertised.