The Queensland Police Service (QPS) has sworn in a new honorary junior police officer in the form of six-year-old Brisbane boy, Travis Heery.
Travis, who has always wanted to be a police officer, has been diagnosed with the terminal illness Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPG), an aggressive and incurable tumour that grows in the brainstem.
Showing his bravery and resilience, Travis received 30 radiation treatments, which successfully gave him full motion back.
However, his mum, Kaye, said that sadly, the tumour had returned and had now entered a state of progression which would eventually take away Travis’s ability to speak, eat and eventually breathe.
Travis was originally told he would be meeting some police officers, but had no idea what was really in store for him.
Acting Sergeant Paul Bagnall, who organised the event, arranged for Travis to have a special police shirt to make the event as real as possible.
Special Junior Constable Travis was picked up from his house in a marked Road Policing Unit vehicle and was escorted by a police motorcycle to the Mounted Police Centre in Moggill.
He was met by Constable Clancy the koala and Acting Inspector Rob Wann, who welcomed him to the Service and presented him with his signed Certificate of Appointment by Commissioner Katarina Carroll, as the Police Pipes and Drums band played for him.
For the following two hours, Special Junior Constable Travis met police from different specialist units including the Dog Squad, Mounted Unit, Special Emergency Response Team, Scenes of Crime and the EORT robot. Playing soccer with the Mounted Unit was by far his favourite activity.
Commissioner Carroll said Travis had gone through a lot in the past year and she was pleased the QPS could support his dream of joining the Service.
