In cases when the family is called upon to attend the Centre to identify a loved one support services are generally available.
[1] Staff at the mortuary performs some 2,000 autopsies annually and is adjacent to the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital on Kessels Road in Coopers Plains.
[2] The facility was opened officially by the Right Honourable Mr Wayne Goss, Premier of Queensland, on 11 December 1992, and commenced operations on 11 January 1993.
In 2005 an employee of the centre was under investigation regarding stolen body parts, based on written accusations by colleagues from some years before.
[4] A twenty-six million dollar construction operation was undertaken to help rectify the existing problems[5] and the John Tonge Centre now has an annual budget of forty-five million dollars[6] with a resultant reduction in the DNA backlog.