12:00a.m. 4th July 2008

| By Rae Wilson

Buderim police beat officer Veronica Brennan is dropped off at her office after getting a lift from a tow truck driver who had been at an earlier accident. Photo: Nicholas Falconer/175820

For a cop with no car, Veronica Brennan can cover her beat in Buderim as well as anyone, it seems.

The senior constable first had to rush on foot from her beat office to a fire at the Buderim Tavern this week.

A few hours later, she set off - again on foot - for a serious accident, but ended up hitching a lift from a woman in a four-wheel-drive.

“It was called in as an entrapment accident and I didn’t know who was at the scene so it was all systems go to get there,” she said. “I commenced on foot from the office and was approached by a lovely lady.

“She could see I was in a hurry. She was on her way to the library and had just driven past the accident.

“I think she presumed by my hurriedness that I was heading that way and asked ‘would you like a lift?’.”

A Hyundai Excel had rolled into the yard of a house on the corner of Mill Road and Gibson Street.

Snr Const. Brennan also relied on the public to get her back to the beat.

“Ambulance officers were going to give me a lift back but they were called off to an urgent job on the Bruce Highway,” she said.

“I would have walked back, but I got a lift back with a tow driver instead.

“I love working on the beat. I love the community spirit and yesterday was a good example of this.”

The beat officers have two bicycles but no vehicle because their role is usually restricted to the CBD.

Queensland Police Union representative for the Coast Des Hansson praised the officer’s initiative.