WHY JOIN THE ASSOCIATION

Joining the Queensland Retired Police Association can be a smart move for your relationships and mental health. 

We have over a thousand members in the Association.  Some of them are associated with our seventeen Branches (Sixteen in Queensland and one in Tasmania) while others maintain contact by receiving emails sent out by the State Management Committee.

Our Branches are: Bundaberg, Darling Downs (meet at Toowoomba), Far North Queensland (meet at Cairns and on the Tablelands), Gladstone, Gold Coast, Gympie, Hervey Bay, Ipswich, Logan-Beenleigh (usually meet at Beenleigh), Mackay-Whitsunday (usually meet at Mackay), Near North Coast (meet at Caboolture, Redcliffe and Bribie Island), Redlands (usually meet in the Wynnum area), Rockhampton, Southern Downs and Granite Belt (meet at Warwick, Stanthorpe and Tenterfield), Sunshine Coast (meet at Alexander Headland and other places on the Sunshine Coast), Townsville and Van Diemen’s Land, Tasmania (meet at different locations).

In Brisbane members attend State meetings of the Association which are held at Police Headquarters.

While State meetings are held monthly in Brisbane, that is generally not the case with the seventeen Branches.  Some have formal meetings each month while others – more so in recent times – are meeting formally bi-monthly with a social gathering held on the other month.

The State Management Committee encourages the Branches to do what they think is best for their members.

ASSOCIATION EVENTS

In Brisbane an annual luncheon is held at the Geebung RSL Club and this is open for attendance by members, police widows, representatives of the Queensland Police Service, local dignitaries and guests. 

Fifteen of the seventeen Branches have annual luncheons while the other two – Rockhampton and Van Diemen’s Land - have annual dinners.

FUNERAL NOTIFICATIONS

With an Association membership you will be notified by email of the passing of members and non-members.  (Two of the objects of the Association are to support members in cases of sickness or bereavement and to show respect by attending, where possible, funerals of deceased members). 

RECEIPT OF QRPA COMMUNICATIONS

Each week, those on email can receive the Weekly Roundup which contains details of passings of members and non members as well as information on upcoming events such as Branch luncheons and dinners.  Sometimes the State Management Committee uses this forum to communicate items of general interest to members. 

For many years the QRPA has been given space in each issue of the Journal of the Queensland Police Union of Employees.  This gives an opportunity for each Branch’s activities to be recorded; also for the State Management Committee to advise of new members, unfortunately passings as well as Certificates issued, members over 90 and a fairly new section on members over 100. 

When the QRPA information is forwarded to the Union Journal Editor, it is sent out to all on email to read and also placed on  the QRPA website.  The Police Union also sends printed copies of the latest Journal to the seventeen Branches. 

For many years the QRPA has had a newsletter which has been distributed to members.  While in the early stages it was sent by post but in recent years, with the advent of email, the newsletter is forwarded to over two hundred members, who are not on email, and police widows.

The formatting, printing and posting of this newsletter is paid for by sponsorship from QBank, the former Queensland Police Credit Union.

Like the Union Journal contribution, when this newsletter is forwarded to the printer it is also placed on the QRPA website.