Katarina Carroll APM was the 20th Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service (QPS) serving in that role from July 2019 until March 2024. Prior to that she was the Commissioner of Queensland Fire and Emergency Services from December 2014 until July 2019. From 2012 to 2014, she was the Chief Security Planner and Operations Commander for the G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia’s largest peacetime security operation.

Ms Carroll has significant operational experience in emergency management and has led both the QFES and QPS response through multiple emergencies and natural disasters.
Known as a transformational leader, former Commissioner Carroll influenced the policing and emergency management sector through her involvement as Chair and member of numerous national boards.

Ms Carroll believes in a life of continual study and holds several tertiary qualifications including an Executive Masters and Degree in Criminology from Griffith where she was also the Outstanding Alumnus Award Winner in 2018. In 2020 former Commissioner Carroll was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from James Cook University. Ms Carroll is also the recipient of the Sir James Wolfensohn Public Service Scholarship, to study at the prestigious Kennedy Business School, Harvard University.

In 2015, Ms Carroll was awarded the National Telstra Businesswomen’s Award for Government and Academia. In 2015 and 2019, Ms Carroll was named as one of the Australian Financial Review and Westpac’s ‘100 Women of Influence’.