IMPORTANT: The Sheriff’s Act (Queensland) 2025 is an independent community proposal. It is not an official Queensland Government policy.
NOTICE: This site has been created to share ideas, invite public feedback, and encourage discussion on local law enforcement reform.
IMPORTANT: The Sheriff’s Act (Queensland) 2025 is an independent community proposal. It is not an official Queensland Government policy. NOTICE: This site has been created to share ideas, invite public feedback, and encourage discussion on local law enforcement reform.
SHEriffs act
A QueenslanD Community proposal — 2025
A comprehensive legislative proposal to establish elected Sheriffs — strengthening LGA-based law enforcement in support of state policing, and ensuring public trust in law enforcement through officers drawn from the communities they serve.
What Is THE SHERIFF’S act actually For?
Publicly Appointed. Legally Empowered. LOCALLY Accountable.
The Queensland Sheriff’s Office is the framework that enables communities across the state to elect or appoint Sheriffs to serve their communities.
Each local Sheriff’s Office operates within its Local Government Area (LGA). It is led by a locally elected Sheriff, who may employ Deputies, and other Sheriff’s Officers & staff who live and work in the same community.
Sheriffs are not police. Their role is civic and community-focused:
Enforcing court orders and warrants of possession
Responding to public disturbances and compliance issues
Managing summary offences and local ordinances
Providing trained first response when required
Every local Sheriff’s Office has clear limits: its jurisdiction ends at the LGA boundary; its authority comes only from existing state legislation; and its accountability is to the people who elect it.
The model fills long-standing service gaps in civil enforcement and community order — especially in regional and rural areas where local presence and local trust are critical.
It doesn’t duplicate police. It complements them.
Without adding to — or granting any extra powers within — an already overworked system, it simply relieves QPS and refocuses what laws and powers we already have, back on safety, order, and trust within the community.
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“Queensland Sheriffs & Deputies are sworn public safety officers, appointed locally to support State law enforcement & public order within their Local Government Area”
— Jed K. Wilson, Proposal Author