Queensland homeowners hire armed guards amid crime wave

Queensland homeowners are hiring armed security guards at rates exceeding $60 per hour to protect their properties from increasingly brazen criminals. One Brisbane security firm has expanded from covering a couple of suburbs in 2022 to 15 across southeast Queensland, with services now operating in Toowoomba, Gold Coast, and Brisbane suburbs including Rochdale, Yeronga, Hamilton, Ascot and Sunnybank. The trend follows incidents where offenders have threatened residents violently during break-ins, including a case where Brisbane grandmother Elena Parolin was allegedly threatened with a knife and gun.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.