POLICE Commissioner Ian Stewart has vowed to cut crime by 10 per cent as the service rolls out scorecards for cops across the state.

Declaring police had enough resources to dramatically reduce the crime rate, Mr Stewart said squads would be measured against the scorecards.

The average number of traffic fines, RBTs, street checks and calls for service per officer will all the assessed on the scorecards along with budgets and overtime.

To reach the ambitious 10 per cent target a mobile army of officers will for the first time work out of "hubs" instead of traditional police stations, so they spend all their time on the beat.

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Mr Stewart told The Courier-Mail he wanted police unchained from their desks in 2014 with special taskforces targeting problem areas as police increase their presence on Queensland streets.

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"I believe that we are capable of dropping the crime rate by 10 per cent and certainly that would be my vision for 2014," Mr Stewart told said.

Mr Stewart said the scorecards were a way of "demonstrating to the public they are getting value for money'' from the police service.

"I don't think any police officer who is conscientiously doing their job should ever worry about being assessed on that performance," he said.

"The balanced scorecard is type of performance assessment that is done in groups more generally.

"And then the team leaders then assess the individual members. The balanced scorecard is more about group assessment than individual assessment and that is one of its strengths."

Scorecards are being trialled in several areas including on some squads on the Gold Coast.

With a two per cent drop in overall crime in the year to December, Mr Stewart said there were already positive signs new methods of policing were working.

He said the assault on the crime rate would also include:

● The launch of the hub policing model;● More iPads for officers to work on the road;● Taskforces deployed to combat problem crime areas and monthly covert and overt "themed" operations.

The first of the new "hubs'' will open on the Gold Coast within six months and should then be rolled out in urban centres across the state.

"(Officers) will simply arrive there, they will get ready for work, they will get briefed, they will get all of the equipment they will need and they will spend basically the whole of their shift out on the road,'' Mr Stewart said.

"We know that police presence is a very powerful preventive tool for crime.

"The more police we have out there circulating, providing confidence to the community that the environment is safe and secure, the better it is.''

Acting Deputy Commissioner Peter Barron said the scorecards were not a return to the controversial "kill sheets" in which targets or quotas for fines were set.

They also identify crime prevention strategies, community problems, crime trends, safety initiatives, intelligence-driven policing, traffic black spots and community engagement levels with schools and community organisations.

"It's not about stats or figures or quotas but it will allow their supervisor to look at them to see how they are performing at the required level," he said.

"It should bring crime down and eventually make the roads a lot safer.

"If someone is not performing at a certain level, that would be up to a supervisor to sort that out."