Townsville police boost as ALP slips

Townsville's thin blue line will be bolstered earlier than planned in a bid to shore up regional votes for a Labor state government wracked with scandals and poor polling.

Labor went to the 2017 election promising an extra 535 police personnel would be deployed across Queensland by June 2022.

Twenty officers have been added to the beat in Townsville since then, with another 53 still to come.

Police Minister Mark Ryan now says their arrival will happen sooner than previously planned, not because the northern city was under-resourced, but simply because Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll has made the call.

It comes as both sides of politics prepare for a parliamentary sitting week in Townsville, and follows two separate shootings there over the weekend.

But the Liberal National Party labelled Monday's announcement as fake because the extra boots won't hit the ground until the end of next year, around the time of the October state election.

LNP leader Deb Frecklington said the announcement would not fool the people of Townsville, who she said the government has ignored for years.

"Annastacia Palaszczuk is so out of touch with regional Queensland it's not funny - I'm surprised she could even find her way here," she said.

The government has been spruiking its police plan in the wake of weekend polling showing support for Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has slipped.

"That's one poll," Thuringowa MP Aaron Harper said.

"One important poll is October next year."

The poor results for Labor come amid the government's most recent spate of sagas, although it is yet to be seen how badly they have washed in the bush.

The LNP will continue to pressure the government over the fate of Jackie Trad while it waits for the Crime and Corruption Commission to say whether or not it will investigate the second most powerful woman in office.

She has weathered powerful CFMEU construction and general branch state secretary Michael Ravbar's call for her resignation over her family's purchase of a Woolloongabba house, among others.

The government is also facing a reminder of another poll: it's loss at the federal election in May, when Queensland voters hammered Labor over it's position on coal and the jobs that go with it.