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FROM the VAULT – Help to ID police personnel in this photograph.
The Queensland Police Museum has a catalogued collection of photographs, currently in excess of 4100. We gratefully receive donations of photographs and objects, relevant to the history of police in...
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SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES: From Whoa! to GO! Police Communications
POLICE COMMUNICATIONS Sunday, 24 June 2018 | 11:00am to 12:30pm Police HQ, 200 Roma Street, Brisbane QLD 4000 FREE ENTRY From Whoa! To GO! Senior Sergeant Sean Sutcliffe will brief you on the role...
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FROM the VAULT – A Conference of Interstate CIB Agents
An annual meeting of Crime Investigation Branch (CIB) Superintendents was held at Brisbane in June 1947. It brought together delegates from police services in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth,...
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FROM the VAULT – From Death Sentence to Pardon, Hop Kee is Cleared
The pardoning of Chinese national Hop Kee in 1892 ended a yearlong police investigation and repeated pleas from the prisoner and his supporters, approximately 1700 residents of Mount Morgan and...
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FROM the VAULT – Help to ID Police Pipe Band members in this photograph.
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SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES: I, Constable: Policing pre-separation Moreton Bay...
POLICING MORETON BAY 1842-1859 Sunday, 29 July 2018 | 11:00am to 12:30pm Police HQ, 200 Roma Street, Brisbane QLD 4000 FREE ENTRY The Moreton Bay District was a very large area extending from the...
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FROM the VAULT – Courage by Constable Edwards in 1986
The Star of Courage is awarded for acts of conspicuous courage in circumstances of great peril. It is the second highest Australian Bravery Decoration. Only four Queensland Police officers have been in...
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FROM the VAULT – Qld Police Museum at the Ekka
North from Coolangatta to Cape York and west to Camooweal, the Queensland Police Museum collects, researches and promotes the history of police in the state of Queensland. Displayed year-round in our...
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FROM the VAULT – Help to ID a Mounted Police Unit Member
The Queensland Police Museum has a catalogued collection of photographs, currently in excess of 4100. We gratefully receive donations of photographs and objects, relevant to the history of police in...
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SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES: Forensic Photography
FORENSIC PHOTOGRAPHY Sunday, 26 August 2018 | 11:00am to 12:30pm Police HQ, 200 Roma Street, Brisbane QLD 4000 FREE ENTRY Sergeant Owyn Butters of the Photographic Section will describe and visually...
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Queensland Road Safety Week launched for 2018
Transport and Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey, along with Minister for Police and Minister for Corrective Services, the Honourable Mark Ryan and Commissioner Ian Stewart, have issued an urgent plea to...
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Police launch one-off Pride patches for Wear It Purple Day
The Queensland Police Service (QPS) have launched specially designed patches to again demonstrate its support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) youth throughout Queensland...
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FROM the VAULT: Motorcycles, Main Roads and Mosquitoes
Recruited in 1924, Constable Harold Vincent Sjostedt commenced in the usual Brisbane city precinct before effecting a joint venture with another officer, Constable Ernest James Dawson, and the Main...
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FROM the VAULT – A Fitting Farewell
Ernest James Dawson was sworn as a Constable on May 11, 1927. Initially stationed at Roma Street and Woolloongabba Police Stations in Brisbane, Constable Dawson was seconded to the Main Roads...
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FROM the VAULT – Queensland Police Ball, 1934
‘The first Ball arranged by the Queensland Police Welfare Club was held in Brisbane City Hall on August 1st 1934, and proved a great success. There were upwards of two thousand persons in attendance,...
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SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES: POLAIR – Policing By Air
POLAIR – Policing By Air Sunday, 30 September 2018 | 11:00am to 12:30pm Police HQ, 200 Roma Street, Brisbane QLD 4000 FREE ENTRY The Queensland Police Service operates two helicopters to conduct...
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FROM the VAULT – Spear Creek Homicides
It was 40 years ago this month, in late October 1978, Queensland police were notified of the discovery of a decomposing body, found north west of Mount Isa close to the dry bed of Spear Creek, and...
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FROM the VAULT – Help to ID this Motorcycle Policeman
The Queensland Police Museum has a catalogued collection of photographs, currently in excess of 4100. We gratefully receive donations of photographs and objects, relevant to the history of police in...
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FROM the VAULT: Breakfast Creek / Newstead Police Station 1889 – 1995
Birds-eye view of Newstead looking upstream towards the city, c1890.Image number RN10870 from the John Oxley Library collection. Breakfast Creek Police Station opened on July 5, 1889 then closed on...
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