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FROM the VAULT – Queensland Police Bowls Club
The Queensland Police Bowls Club was established in 1955. Membership was open to all serving and retired police and civilians of the Queensland Police Force, with paid membership at a bowling club...
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FROM the VAULT – CoP William Edward Parry-Okeden
On 1 July 1895 William Edward Parry-Okeden was appointed Commissioner of Police, a post unsought but loyally accepted. Many reforms ensued: reorganization of Queensland’s police into seven districts;...
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FROM the VAULT – CoP David Thompson Seymour
David Thompson Seymour (1831-1916), soldier and police commissioner, was born on 5 November 1831 at Ballymore Castle, County Galway, Ireland, son of Thomas Seymour, gentleman, and his wife Matilda...
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FROM THE VAULT – The Queensland Police Academy 50th Anniversary
50 Years of World Class Policing through Education & Training The new Queensland Police Academy nears completion, 1971. In 1971 work on the new Queensland Police Academy at Oxley was well underway...
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FROM the VAULT – Police Station Identification – A Sign of the Times
This cast iron Queensland Police Station Badge was use as a station identifier between 1911 and 1958. Image Courtesy of the Queensland Police Museum. During the 19th century, police stations were not...
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Sunday Stories 27 September 2026 – ‘Dangerous to Know’ with Duncan Richardson
11:00 – 12:30 FREE ENTRY – Bookings essential via Eventbrite “Dangerous to Know: Early Colonial Doctors and Asylums in South East Queensland” In the mid-19th century most doctors believed that cold...
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Sunday Stories: 30 August 2026 – The Ether Man
11:00 – 12:30 FREE ENTRY – Bookings Essential via Eventbrite The topics discussed are not suitable for young children. Join QPM as museum curator Lisa Jones recounts the tale of a string of sexual...
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FROM the VAULT – A Verbal Portrait
‘Signalment is the description of the one whom it is desired to identify.’ In 1882, Alphonse Bertillon developed anthropometry, a criminal identification system also known as bertillonage. Bertillon...
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Sunday Stories 26 July – The 1986 Disappearance of Sharron Phillips
11:00 Tickets via Eventbrite Duration 1hr 30mins – All ages welcome – Doors open at 10:45 All images provided by Ms K. Kyriacou. Copyright ‘The Courier Mail’. 40 years since Sharron Phillips vanished...
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FROM the VAULT – Police Kit to Fit the Criminals
The first uniform forensic identification method was developed by Alphonse Bertillon over a hundred years ago. In the twentieth century, his descriptive signalment and signalment by peculiar marks...
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FROM the VAULT – Sly Grog Patrol
The following is an account by Albert Austin Montague, an American and former WWII Submariner and retired Sergeant Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, now deceased, of time spent in Brisbane, on...
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FROM the VAULT – Arthur Albert Bock
Arthur Albert Bock, previously a Labourer from South Australia, joined the Queensland Police as Constable 467 in May 1904. Between 1904 and 1915 Bock served at Roma Street, Charters Towers, Croydon,...
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Sunday Stories: Stephen Tiernan – The Artist Detective
28 June 2026 11am Tickets via Eventbrite – The Artist Detective Queensland Police Museum is proud present the June chapter of our Sunday Stories event with QPS Detective Chief Inspector Stephen...
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FROM the VAULT – The Coorparoo Junction Murders
In the early hours of 22 March 1964 the Fire Brigade and Police were called to a fire at a shop with a residence at the rear of 190-192 Cavendish Road, Coorparoo, only 40 yards from the heart of the...
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FROM the VAULT – Famous Faces
Mal Meninga – At the age of 20, Malcolm Meninga joined the Queensland Police Force. It was 1980, and Mal was sworn into the position of Constable, 2 years after making his first grade Rugby League...
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FROM the VAULT – Stock and Rural Crime Investigation Squad (SARCIS)
In 1959, the Stock Investigation Squad was formed with a detective sergeant placed in charge of three plainclothes officers. Initially, the Squad was based at the Criminal Investigation Branch,...
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FROM the VAULT – Police Accoutrements: Baton, or Truncheon
A baton or a truncheon has been one of the standard issue police accoutrements across a variety of police forces over nearly 200 years. The Queensland Police Manual from 1869 indicates, the baton is...
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FROM the VAULT – John McDonald’s Thin Red Line
In the 1800s, Australian colonial police were gradually organising and centralising. The local forces composed of recruits generally representative of the local population, with preference given to...
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FROM the VAULT – Police Depot and Training
Before centrally organised police in Ireland, the night watchmen, also known as “Charlies”, patrolled the streets between the hours of sunset and sunrise. The men received no preliminary training or...
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FROM the VAULT – Eromanga Police Station
After renting a two room cottage in Eromanga for use as a police station, at a cost of five shillings per week, the station was instructed to close three months later. It was December 1891. At the...
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