A QUEENSLAND teacher has incensed a high-profile children's counselling service and angered the police union after creating an elaborate fantasy life for himself on social networking website Facebook.

Clint Acworth claimed he was a tireless charity worker, had been hired by Kids Helpline and that his young policewoman partner "Kellie" died just after Christmas, a few weeks after being shot on duty, reported The Sunday Mail.

The tale of her "death" led to an outpouring of sympathy and fooled family and friends of the Brisbane man.

"One thing that Kell said to me the day before she passed away will always stay with me: 'You have made me the happiest woman in the world . . . I love you Clintypoo . . . I'll always be with you'," Mr Acworth wrote on his Facebook page last week.

But charity workers and police are now demanding answers after The Sunday Mail exposed the story as an elaborate work of fiction.

The case highlights the dilemma social networking sites are posing for schools as they struggle to clamp down on the online behaviour of teachers.

Online, Mr Acworth's high-flying life was one of endless charity events, rubbing shoulders with celebrity friends and volunteering for good causes.

Last September, while teaching at Sheldon College in Redland City, south of Brisbane, Mr Acworth boasted online of a lucrative job offer with Kids Helpline.

"They will start me on $85,000," he wrote, later telling friends he had accepted the national training deputy director job.

Over more than a year, Mr Acworth wrote online of his jetsetting around the country to attend fundraisers, presenting to audiences of up to 2000 people at charity events, working as a Youth Beyond Blue Ambassador and other charities, and refereeing at weekend rugby matches.

"Absolutely love this work and the people I meet have become mates for life," he wrote ahead of one event.

But organisations such as Kids Helpline, Ronald McDonald House, Youth Beyond Blue, the Mater Hospital and Sunshine Coast Rugby League say they have no record of a Clint Acworth working as either an employee or volunteer.

Kids Helpline operations co-ordinator Tony Fitzgerald said the group had launched an internal investigation and was considering police action to stop statements by Mr Acworth that he works for the charity. "I can confirm that he does not and has never worked for us and the position he claims to hold has never existed in this organisation," Mr Fitzgerald said.

Last November, Mr Acworth took to Facebook to reveal his partner, whom he named as Detective Senior Constable Kellie Walker, had been shot.

"Kell's out of the woods for now - has regained consciousness after sustaining a gunshot wound from a routine drug sting," he wrote.

Facebook friends were then told of Kellie's recovery, homecoming and impending transfer from the Gold Coast to the Noosa CIB.

But on December 29, a post on Mr Acworth's Facebook page delivered the news that Kellie had suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 29.

Details for a "private" funeral were announced via Facebook for last Wednesday on the Sunshine Coast.

Late last week, Mr Acworth took to Facebook to thank friends for delivering "touching eulogies" before a crowd of almost 200 people.

But a Queensland Police Service spokesman said it had no record of a police officer being shot on duty nor of a police officer by that name. Searches by the Queensland Police Union also found no record of such a shooting.

"Every time a police officer dies, it brings back the pain to all those police families who have lost loved ones," Police Union boss Ian Leavers said. "For someone to trade on that grief simply to make their own lives sound more exciting is an insult to those officers injured protecting the community."

When contacted by The Sunday Mail, Mr Acworth initially agreed to meet, but later pulled out of the meeting.

Sheldon College principal Dr Lyn Bishop said Mr Acworth had taught at the school for six months last year before his contract ended last month.