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Road safety report: Easter Break – Day 1
A motorcyclist has been detected allegedly travelling almost 200km/hour on the Bruce Highway on day 1 of the Easter Break phase for the Queensland Police Service’s Road Safety Campaign. The motorcycle...
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FROM the VAULT – Acting CoP Ronald Joseph Redmond
At the time of his application to join the Queensland Police Force (QPF) on June 19, 1950, Ronald Joseph Redmond was employed as a junior clerk by Qantas Empire Airways, and before that by Queensland...
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QPM SUNDAY LECTURE: A Crash Course in Forensic Mechanics
A Crash Course in Forensic Mechanics 30 April 2017 11:00am – 12:30pm Police Headquarters 200 Roma Street Brisbane QLD 4000 FREE ENTRY Have you ever wondered how police rule out or take into...
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FROM the VAULT – All part of the Police Service in 1910
The notice read; ‘SNAKE BITES. The Police generally are directed to report all instances of snake-bite coming within their knowledge, together with the treatment adopted and the result thereof. The...
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Back in the future
Acting Senior Constable Beau McNamara and I recently visited a movie set on the Gold Coast and met up with some characters on set. The movie being made is called “In Like Flynn” and is about famous...
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FROM the VAULT – Policing Brisbane before Queensland
It is tempting to picture early colonial Brisbane as a lawless place inhabited by convicts and ticket-of-leavers, convicts on parole, and the military. In the first five years, Brisbane population...
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FROM the VAULT – CoP Noel Newnham
Noel Ronald Newnham came to Queensland from the Victorian Police Service and took the Oath to become our 16th Police Commissioner at a ceremony on November 1, 1989. He was ‘selected from dozens of...
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SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES: The Fingerprint Expert
The Fingerprint Expert 28 May 2017 11am – 12.30pm Police Headquarters 200 Roma Street Brisbane QLD 4000 FREE ENTRY Matching fingerprints from a crime scene to an offender or using fingerprints to...
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FROM the VAULT – Refrain, reuse, recycle
Thrifty fore folk left fascinating evidence of overseas trading preferences, restricted finances and careful reuse in hundreds of memorandums retained by the Queensland Police Museum. In October 1929...
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FROM the VAULT – CoP James Patrick O’Sullivan
Prior to the retirement of Police Commissioner James Patrick O’Sullivan, Jenny Fleming from the Queensland Police Union Journal spoke with Mr O’Sullivan about his 41 year policing career, including 8...
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FROM the VAULT – Alderley Garage Turns 30!
On 24 June 1987 the Queensland Police Department moved their vehicle depot from the heritage listed Petrie Terrace Police Barracks to an existing building in Pickering Street, Alderley. The low rise...
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SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES: The Petrov Affair – a Queensland link
The Petrov Affair – a Queensland link 25 June 2017 11:00am – 12:30pm Police Headquarters 200 Roma Street Brisbane QLD 4000 FREE ENTRY The Petrov Affair was a Cold War spy incident in Australia in...
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FROM the VAULT – The 1889 Sick Leave Audit
A handwritten copy of a wire sent to all Inspectors by Police Commissioner William Parry-Okeden on 21 January 1889 requested to “Say whether you strictly adhere to clause 37, page 203 of [Queensland...
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INVITATION – Policing a Colonial Metropolis: from Moreton Bay to Brisbane
Queensland State Archives with the Harry Gentle Resource Centre are proud to present Dr Anastasia Dukova Policing a Colonial Metropolis: from Moreton Bay to Brisbane Join us at Queensland State...
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FROM the VAULT – The Decoyed Bushranger
The Queensland Police Gazette (QPG) reported highway robbery of the Condamine mailman, on horseback six miles from Roma, on October 21 1865, and named suspect Alphin McPherson, known by many aliases...
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FROM the VAULT – CoP Raymond W. Whitrod
Raymond Wells Whitrod served the people of South Australia as a police officer between 1934 and 1949. His rise to the rank of Detective preceded becoming the Assistant Director of the Australian...
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FROM the VAULT – Springbok Tour of Queensland
Further to our recent article about Police Commissioner Raymond Wells Whitrod, another sporting event came into the spotlight in 1971, the tour of South African Rugby Union team, the Springboks. In...
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FROM the VAULT – CoP Robert Atkinson
Robert Atkinson commenced cadet training for recruitment in the Queensland Police Force in 1968 with the first station posting at Hemmant, near the port of Brisbane, and relatively close to his...
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QSA EVENT – The Prosecution Project: Qld Sources and Qld Stories
Queensland State Archives with the Griffith Criminology Institute are proud to present Professor Mark Finnane ARC Laureate Fellow, Griffith University discussing The Prosecution Project Queensland...
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125 years of photographic services within the Queensland Police Service
The scientific use of photography has come a long way in the 125 years since it became apart of the Queensland Police Service. Police archives as far back as 1884 praised the photographic process as a...
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