Police cars no place for advertising: union
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The police union believes advertising holds no place on police vehicles. (AAP, file photo)
The Queensland Police Union says it is flatly opposed to putting corporate logos on police cars.
A review is underway into a decision to put the Brisbane Airport Corporation's logo on the police vehicles as part of a $100,000 sponsorship deal with the Crimestoppers hotline.
Union president Cameron Pope says if one company gets advertising space, others will expect it.
"It's private advertising and we support the Brisbane Airport Commission and their support for Crimestoppers, but then where do you stop putting private advertising on police vehicles?" he said.
"There should be a line and we believe there shouldn't be any, it shouldn't be on police cars, end of story."
Meanwhile the BAC says the furore surrounding its sponsorship is unfortunate and unnecessary.
BAC spokesman Jim Carden says the airport never sought to have its logo on police cars in the first place and would have supported Crime Stoppers with or without it.
He says the BAC is disappointed an essential service like Crime Stoppers was politicised.
"The publicity over the last is a little unfortunate given crime stoppers is a volunteer organisation and they are always looking for positive publicity to attract more corporate sponsorship such as ours," he said.
"It would be nice if people would spend all of this energy talking about this particular sponsorship and perhaps raising some funds for this very important organisation."
