Sporting salute to Brett

The Moreton Bay region will host a special sporting tribute to Senior Constable Brett Forte on Saturday (October 5).

Hockey players, police officers and Australian internationals will play in the annual memorial match for Senior Constable Forte at Redcliffe Hockey Club.

Senior Constable Forte, who was shot and killed on duty near Toowoomba in 2017, grew up on the peninsula and played juniors at Redcliffe.

Organised by the club’s old boys and starting at 10am, the annual fixture also a fundraiser for Queensland Police Legacy.

Brett Forte’s brother Chris, who will play on Saturday, said: “This match is a big part of our family calendar.

“It's remembering Brett and supporting Police Legacy by raising money which will be distributed to the families of fallen police officers.

“Brett was pretty big part of hockey community in his junior years, until he went to the police academy.”

This year the Police side will include former Kookaburras captain Mark Knowles and Redcliffe will field Hockeyroos star Hannah Cullum-Sanders.

Knowles won Olympic, World Cup, Champions League, Oceania Cup, World League and Commonwealth gold in a glittering career, in which he also played professionally in Europe.

Cullum-Sanders is 21 but already has 23 caps for the Hockeyroos and will play just weeks after helping Redcliffe’s women win the Brisbane Premier League 1 Grand Final.

They follow Olympians Nikki Hudson (nee Mott, who won gold at Sydney 2000), Angie Lambert (also a gold medallist in Sydney) and Grant Smith (bronze medallist at the 1996 Games in Atalanta) who have also played in the annual fixture.

The first year of the memorial match, funds raised went to Brett Forte’s family and in subsequent years it has been donated to the Police Legacy.