Queensland police to get expanded powers to randomly scan people for knives

Officers will be able stop and search people on public transport and in all safe night precincts' in two-year trial

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Queensland police will soon have expanded powers to stop and search people for knives using detection wands, after a trial on the Gold Coast.

The trial allowed officers to randomly stop and scan people with wands in the region's safe night precincts.

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