An investigation has been launched after a man was found dead shortly after running away from police.
Officers had been called to the southwest Rockhampton suburb Allenstown, central Queensland, at about 11.30pm on Friday.
They had received a report of an allegedly stolen car, which had travelled about 100km from nearby town Gladstone.
A tyre deflation device was successfully deployed and they brought the car to a stop shortly before midnight.
The body of a man who was driving an allegedly stolen car from Gladstone, central Queensland, was found on the bank of Rockhampton’s Fitzroy River on Saturday (pictured, the embankment between Col Brown Park and the river)
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Officers had been called to the southwest Rockhampton suburb Allenstown, central Queensland, at about 11.30pm on Friday
The male driver of the car then fled from the car on foot into the park where police where unable to locate him.
Police resumed the search for the man on Saturday morning but a member of the public found his body in the river at the bottom of a steep embankment.
The State Coroner has been advised of the incident and the Ethical Standards Command will investigate.
The investigation is subject to independent oversight by the Crime and Corruption Commission.
