GOLD Coast police have been warned to be ‘hyper vigilant’ and patrol local mosques and critical infrastructure sites following a terror-related attack on officers in Melbourne overnight.

Police shot dead a Melbourne teen terror suspect last night after he stabbed two officers from the Joint Counter Terrorism Team.

They say they had ‘no choice’ to kill the 18-year-old Muslim man, under surveillance for making threats against Prime Minister Tony Abbott, after he stabbed an AFP and Victorian officer.

GOVERNMENT WORKER WAS TO BE BEHEADED

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Queensland Police commissioner Ian Stewart this morning sent out an urgent email to the state’s officers urging them to be ‘hyper vigilant’, to patrol local mosques and ‘log any activity’.

Power and water treatment facilities will also come under increased watch.

media_camera The threat of terrorists launching an attack on the Gold Coast has prompted increased security measures. This image shows Islamic State fighters marching through Syria.

Commissioner Stewart said officers could apply to take firearms home with them for extra safety.

Gold Coast district police superintendent Des Lacy told theGold Coast Bulletin police would patrol mosques to protect its worshippers.

“With heightened levels of threat, we are patrolling critical infrastructure and the mosques as part of our daily tasking,” he said.

“This is to ensure the safety of all people and infrastructure which is the utmost of our concern given the heightened tension in the community.

“We have identified those sites and will ensure that we increase our security to protect them.”

media_camera The Gold Coast mosque at Arundel will come under increase surveillance. Imam Imraan Hussein pictured outside the mosque. Pic: Tim Marsden

Patrols of the Arundel mosque come a week after the Gold Coast City Council voted to reject plans to build another place of worship in Currumbin.

The debate over the proposed development sparked anti-Islamic protests at the Evandale council chambers where attendees waved placards warning of beheadings similar to those in Syria.

The heightened security measures come as the Islamic State terrorist group called on its supporters to kill soldiers and civilians in Australia, the US and Europe.

media_camera Weapons system video of U.S. air strike against an ISIL compound northwest of Ar Raqqah, Syria yesterday. Picture: Department of Defense

“If you can kill an American or European infidel — especially the spiteful and cursed French — or an Australian or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the infidel fighters ... then rely upon God and kill them in any way possible,” the group’s spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani ash-Shamial said in the speech, which was uploaded to the web as an audio file.

Raids in Sydney and Brisbane last week sought to disrupt a plot by IS supporters to abduct and kill a random member of the public.

It was revealed a Government employee sitting at the front counter of a Government agency could have been the victim of a vicious terrorist plot in Queensland, including a possible beheading.