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FROM the VAULT – Wall to Wall Ride for Remembrance
In honour of police officers who have died performing their duty, or whilst seconded from their police role and enlisted to serve during World War 1, police motorcyclists will make their way to the...
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FROM the VAULT – Texas and a flooding Severn River
Inspector William Harris, in Texas to inspect the new police station and arrange for it to be fenced, reported on flooding in the town to the Police Commissioner by letter dated 4th April 1890; “On the...
View ArticleNO Sunday Lecture – But the Police Museum is OPEN!
The Police Museum welcomes you on September 24, open as usual on the last Sunday of the month, but there will be no lecture. This is due to the hosting of two events next month; the annual Mounted...
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Queensland Mounted Police Unit – Display Day at Moggill
Queensland Police Museum –Sunday Lecture Series On location at the Queensland Mounted Police facility, Moggill October 15, 2017 Ever wondered how police horses remain so composed whilst working amongst...
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FROM the VAULT – Petrie Terrace Parcel Bomb 1967
At about 8.45am on 9 October 1967 a postman delivered a small parcel to 29 Earl Street, Petrie Terrace. Mrs Tracey Phillips aged 22, wife of Bill Phillips, tattoo artist, took the package from the...
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SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES: Looking Out For Clandestine Drug Labs
LOOKING OUT FOR LABS: HOW TO SPOT A CLANDESTINE LABORATORY 29 October 2017 11:00am – 12:30pm Police Headquarters 200 Roma Street Brisbane QLD 4000 Entry is FREE Community members will learn how to...
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125 years of photographic services: The evolution of the photographic studio
After the introduction of photography into the QPS in 1892, no provision had been made for a properly designed and built darkroom, studio or office under the one roof. Though hard to imagine now,...
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FROM the VAULT – Policing Pinkenba (Part 1)
In 1898 the first moves to secure a home-based police officer in the Myrtle Town and Pinkenba districts, followed the extension of the rail line to Pinkenba, the erection of the wharves, the reopening...
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FROM the VAULT – Policing Pinkenba (Part 2)
Flood prone Pinkenba Police Station suffered more disaster; in a memorandum dated March 14, 1908, Constable James Reville wrote; “I made a mounted patrol (on police horse ‘Bismark’) throughout the...
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SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES – A History of Boggo Road Gaol
A History of Boggo Road Gaol 26 November 2017 11:00am – 12:30pm Police Headquarters 200 Roma Street Brisbane QLD 4000 Entry is FREE Construction of Boggo Road Gaol, by A. Lind & Son, began in...
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FROM the VAULT – A New Suit
The very first edition of the Queensland Police Department’s ‘Vedette’ in November 1977, a journal for police officers described by the Editor, I.W. Hatcher, as ‘the birth of what we hope will be a...
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FROM the VAULT – B.C. O’Sullivan: A distinctive face and a solid policing career
A tall police officer always in Plain Clothes with a distinctive face kept popping up amongst our image collection. It took a couple of years before we discovered who he was and could put a name to the...
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FROM the VAULT – The Memoirs of Clair Jessen Part 1 – A Promotion to Burketown
Clair Jessen was the wife of Alfred John Jessen, sworn into the Queensland Police Force in 1944 and serving many city and country communities, including from the very remote Burketown Police Station in...
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FROM the VAULT – The Memoirs of Clair Jessen Part 2 – Cooking up a Storm
Clair Jessen was the wife of Alfred John Jessen, sworn into the Queensland Police Force in 1944 and serving many city and country communities, including from the very remote Burketown Police Station in...
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FROM the VAULT – The Memoirs of Clair Jessen Part 3 – Remoteness Embraced
Clair Jessen was the wife of Alfred John Jessen, sworn into the Queensland Police Force in 1944 and serving many city and country communities, including from the very remote Burketown Police Station in...
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FROM the VAULT – A Butcher, a Baker and Toogoolawah Police Station
In August 1907, Sergeant Clare of the Esk Police Station reported that the residents of Toogoolawah were complaining about the need for police protection after disturbances on the streets and at Thorns...
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FROM the VAULT – A Busy Constable Polices Gamblers and Larrikins
George Charles Rayner was born at Moraby, near Yeulba, on 28 October 1876. Before joining the Queensland Police Force he was employed as a stockman. His employer, Mr. Moore at Miles described him as ‘a...
View Article2018 Sunday Lecture Series
The Queensland Police Museum welcomes you to the 2018 Sunday Lecture Series. Unless otherwise advised, lectures are held on the last Sunday of the month (between February and November) from 11am until...
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FROM the VAULT – The Beginnings of Bollon Police Barracks
On 8 January 1880, a bank official named Mr Wilkinson, of Grassmere, wrote to the Commissioner of Police recommending the construction of a police barracks at Bollon on Wallam Creek; “ …at the races at...
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