Thousands of colleagues and strangers travelled from across Queensland to farewell slain police officers Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow in Brisbane
It has been the tradition at some Brisbane high schools for parents of the graduating class to write their children a letter, a message for them to hold through life, something more than transient dinner table encouragement and congratulations.
Matthew and Rachel McCrow, 29, were shot dead on the afternoon of December 12 by the occupants of an isolated Western Downs property to which the constables had been sent with two others to check about a missing person. Good Samaritan neighbour Alan Dare, 58, was also killed when he arrived to investigate smoke and gunshots.Constables Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold.
They heard she graduated from the Townsville police academy in June last year – a little more than a year after Matthew finished in Brisbane – after study, travel and work, including at the state’s Crime and Corruption Commission, an experience she jokingly used to stir “a bit of mystery” among her fellow recruits.
“The team from Townsville has come down. The girls from Mackay are here. The lads from Coen had to drive down … Bamaga, Mount Isa, Aurukun – Rachel, you are truly the only person that could have brought us all together.” Queensland Police Service commissioner Katarina Carroll said it was Grade 9 when he first raised the idea with his parents of becoming a police officer. She joked that when Terry mentioned this to the police fathers at St Laurence’s College, which Matthew attended, they offered to take him down to the local watchhouse on a Friday night to persuade him otherwise.
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