"When the chance came up to come here it was an easy decision to make," Cullip told the QPR website.

Rangers boss John Gregory said: "We needed a player with his kind of character. He's a leader, an organiser and in my opinion a winner."

The 30-year-old defender joined Forest from Sheffield United in August 2005.

But his time at the City Ground was hampered by a series of hamstring injuries - restricting him to 14 appearances last season.

Cullip becomes boss John Gregory's third signing of the transfer window