Queensland detectives have charged a man over Australia's only unsolved police shooting.
Senior Constable Neill Scutts was shot in the groin when two men robbed a bank in Browns Plains, south of Brisbane, in March 1999.
The officer had to undergo emergency surgery after the bullet passed through his buttocks and narrowly missed a major artery.
The development comes after Queensland Police doubled the reward for information about the shooting to $500,000.
Senior Constable Scutts spoke about the incident during the announcement last month.
"This still has quite a bit of emotion for me after all this time," he said.
"I was conscious through the whole thing, I knew where I'd been shot, I knew I was at risk of dying if it had hit my artery."
A 49-year-old man will appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court this morning charged with 13 offences including attempted murder and deprivation of liberty.
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