Crackdown on youth offenders amid 'community frustration'

Taskforce Guardian has arrested 21 young people in Ipswich, Queensland, for a combined 112 offences between January 29 and February 11.

"We hear the community's frustration and I want to assure them police will do everything in our power to seek justice for victims and bring offenders to account," Ipswich district officer superintendent Kylie Rigg said.

"Community safety continues to be our priority and the additional resources from Taskforce Guardian allow us to bolster our frontline with more boots on the ground to target serious repeat offenders," she said.

Mrs White was with her 6-year-old granddaughter when she was allegedly stabbed in an Aldi carpark in Redbank Plains and her car was allegedly stolen on February 3.

A 16-year-old Bellbird Park boy was charged with the murder and four other teens were charged with unlawful use of a motor vehicle over the alleged car theft.

The case is progressing through Queensland Children's Courts.

The alleged murder has been met with outrage in the Ipswich community with residents calling for more police patrols.

"We're pushing for these people that make these changes in the laws for this to never happen again... stop being soft on this stuff," Mrs White's daughter Cindy Micalleff said after the alleged murder.

Superintendent Rigg said extra police, including plain clothes officers, were deployed and they were "conducting high-visibility patrols aimed at deterring anti-social and criminal behaviour across Ipswich".

"These extra patrols are complimented by the presence of our mobile police facility currently deployed at Redbank Plains shopping centre that allows members of the public to engage and report anything that they may be concerned about in the community."