diff --git a/src/runmode-nfq.c b/src/runmode-nfq.c
index 704b1de4a2..4839fbc52d 100644
--- a/src/runmode-nfq.c
+++ b/src/runmode-nfq.c
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ void RunModeIpsNFQRegister(void)
     RunModeRegisterNewRunMode(RUNMODE_NFQ, "autofp",
                               "Multi threaded NFQ IPS mode with respect to flow",
                               RunModeIpsNFQAutoFp);
+
+    RunModeRegisterNewRunMode(RUNMODE_NFQ, "worker",
+                              "Multi queue NFQ IPS mode with one thread per queue",
+                              RunModeIpsNFQWorker);
     return;
 }
 
@@ -113,3 +117,22 @@ int RunModeIpsNFQAutoFp(DetectEngineCtx *de_ctx)
 #endif /* NFQ */
     return ret;
 }
+
+int RunModeIpsNFQWorker(DetectEngineCtx *de_ctx)
+{
+    SCEnter();
+    int ret = 0;
+#ifdef NFQ
+
+    RunModeInitialize();
+
+    TimeModeSetLive();
+
+    ret = RunModeSetIPSWorker(de_ctx,
+            NFQGetThread,
+            "ReceiveNFQ",
+            "VerdictNFQ",
+            "DecodeNFQ");
+#endif /* NFQ */
+    return ret;
+}
diff --git a/src/runmode-nfq.h b/src/runmode-nfq.h
index bc95c5f097..677fff682b 100644
--- a/src/runmode-nfq.h
+++ b/src/runmode-nfq.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 
 int RunModeIpsNFQAuto(DetectEngineCtx *);
 int RunModeIpsNFQAutoFp(DetectEngineCtx *);
+int RunModeIpsNFQWorker(DetectEngineCtx *);
 void RunModeIpsNFQRegister(void);
 const char *RunModeIpsNFQGetDefaultMode(void);