Community & Business
31 January, 2025
Medal for officer
DETECTIVE Senior Sergeant Brett Devine has been awarded an Australian Policing Medal in recognition of nearly four decades of service.
The police officer, who was sworn into the force in 1987, has served all his career as an operational police officer in Far North Queensland, serving initially as a general duties officer then the remainder of his career as an investigator in criminal investigation branches including as an officer in charge.
He has been the officer-in-charge of Mareeba Crime Investigations Branch since 2006.
Detective Senior Sergeant Devine commenced his service with the in September 1986 and was sworn in as a police officer on in April 1987. He has extensive policing experience throughout communities in the Far North, including Aurukun.
He commenced as an investigator in the Cairns Drug Squad in 1993 and achieved his detective’s appointment in 1998 whilst he was performing duties in the Cairns Criminal Investigations Branch.
Detective Senior Sergeant Devine transferred to Thursday Island in the Torres Strait where he enhanced his investigative career and become well regarded across several state and federal government agencies for his practical approach to policing and his extraordinary ability to achieve shared outcomes in a dynamic operating environment.
