Jack Dempsey, Minister for Police and Community Safety was responsible for the division.
The division provided support to the State Emergency Service in Queensland,[1] worked closely with the Bureau of Meteorology and coordinated volunteers for disaster clean-up operations.
It also provided an air ambulance service called EMQ Helicopter Rescue.
Prior to this grounding the helicopters experienced tail and rotor problems and were the subject of criticism over their expense from supporters of other rescue helicopters, which means two of EMQs Bell 412s were used for medivacs during the AW139 grounding.
Emergency Management Queensland may assist communities experiencing threats from floods, cyclones, storm surge, severe storms, landslides, heatwaves and bushfires and to a lesser extent earthquakes and tsunamis.