Neil Roberts will not be missed

The LNP said Labor's retiring Police Minister Neil Roberts would not be missed.

LNP Shadow Minister John-Paul Langbroek said the former union industrial rep would be remembered for the chronic mismanagement of the ambulance service and the lack of support and under-resourcing for frontline police.

"Ambulance ramping and the cover-up of shortages across the state became an art-form under Neil Roberts," Mr Langbroek said.

"He seriously mismanaged the most recent police pay rise leaving a near $90 million black hole in the QPS budget that's resulting in hundreds of support jobs being axed leaving frontline police to handle increasing levels of paperwork."

Mr Langbroek said tens of thousands of volunteer rural fire brigade members and SES volunteers had walked from both key services under Neil Roberts's watch – fed up the with harassment and bullying and mindless compliance paperwork that's been the hallmark of the long Labor years.

"Neil Roberts says he's moving on and looking at another career.

"The truth is he will not be missed. Indeed many ambulance officers, frontline police and volunteers will be very happy to see the back of him and his years of failing to deliver decent outcomes for police and emergency services.

"In my part of the world, he will be remembered as the Police Minister who denied that stealing and violent and armed crime was out of control on the Gold Coast.

"After 20 years, the best Neil Roberts and Labor could offer was a throwaway line that more police would come next year in another hollow promise, just like the Premier saying there'd be no asset sales, there'd be no fuel tax.

"Neil Roberts is leaving, but Queenslanders need real change, not just a reshuffle from Anna Bligh.

"It's time for genuine change. It's time to get Queensland back on track."