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SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES: Tracing Your Indigenous Family Tree
*Please note that images and/or names of Indigenous people, now deceased, are contained within this post and our collection.* Tracing Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Family History Using Police...
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FROM the VAULT – O’Driscoll’s Wild Ride
At 1.30pm on September 16, 1914 Mr Benjamin Andrews reported to police that his horse and sulky had been stolen from the front of the Rowes Café in Edward Street, Brisbane. A description of the thief...
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FROM the VAULT – A day at the Coen Races in 1928
The Coen Races was an annual event attracting locals and visitors to the dusty town racetrack for an enjoyable two days of racing and betting. Constable Howard Green, recently from Cairns, was in...
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FROM the VAULT – Exercising Witchcraft or Telling Fortunes
Queensland’s Criminal Practice Rules, 1900, ushered in a number of critical amendments throughout the following century. The Rules passed in 1900 were extensive and encompassed all levels of the...
View ArticleThe Queensland Police Museum is OPEN this Sunday. There will be NO Sunday...
The Queensland Police Museum is OPEN this Sunday. There will be NO Sunday Lecture. It’s the Queensland Police Museum’s regular Sunday opening on November 25th, however due to the schedule of the...
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FROM the VAULT – Queensland Police Museum 125th Birthday
Today, 27th November 2018, is our 125th birthday! The Queensland Police Museum has evolved from a grisly accumulation of weaponry used by criminals, to a balanced collection of historic policing...
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PODCAST: A Shout from the Long Grass – the Police Murders at Stringybark Creek
Victoria Police has launched a new podcast, A Shout from the Long Grass – the Police Murders at Stringybark Creek, which tells the story of the four Victoria Police officers attacked by the Kelly gang...
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ARMY MUSEUM SOUTH QUEENSLAND – The War To End All Wars
The bulk of the Queensland Police Force occupies army buildings at Victoria Barracks until 1883. Victoria Barracks on Petrie Terrace in Brisbane is home to the Army Museum South Queensland. A new...
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FROM THE VAULT: Points to be observed when painting police stations 1894
Senior Constable John Power was first stationed at Mitchell in September 1889. In late 1894 just prior to his move to Charleville, he must have asked about painting the police station and received...
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FROM THE VAULT: The Shock of His Life
Police issue rubber-soled boots may have saved the life of Constable Kelvin Mooney. The 20-year-old was wearing such boots on 3 September 1980 when he was struck by 11 000 volts of electricity that...
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FROM the VAULT – Gold and Greed Part 1: the murder of Constables Power and...
Between 1861 and 1867 there were a number of gold discoveries at Clermont; Cloncurry; Cape River; Nanango, Gympie and Kilkivan. Gold was discovered in Central Queensland near Peak(e) Downs in 1861,...
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FROM the VAULT – Gold and Greed Part 2: the murder of Constables Power and...
TIMELINE OF EVENTS Thursday 17 October – Griffin arrives in Rockhampton from Clermont 6 Chinese gold diggers entrust him with £252 worth of money and gold, for safe keeping. Griffin subsequently...
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Sunday Lecture Series – February 24: Policing Colonial Brisbane
Brisbane of the early 1860s was ‘not a very attractive city, with uniform streets, atrociously kept shops, and houses few and far between. Bullock teams frequently blocked the thoroughfare’. (So said...
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FROM the VAULT – Gold and Greed Part 3: the murder of Constables Power and...
AFTER THE MURDERS Wednesday 6 November Griffin and Bedford start for Rockhampton with Griffin keeping Bedford in front of him all the way. About 20 miles into the journey, Griffin rides off the track...
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FROM the VAULT – Gold and Greed FINALE: the murder of Constables Power and...
AFTER THE TRIAL and EXECUTION June 2 – Location of the Stolen Money The money was subsequently located after a search of the area surrounding Mrs Otley’s but it was damaged and rendered useless by...
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FROM THE VAULT – How to capture bush rangers: a demonstration, Coen c1897
Coen, c1897 – Staged scene of police officers capturing bush rangers: Constable 1/c Charles Batemen of the Coen Township Police, on his horse aims his firearm at a “bushranger”, Senior Constable George...
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FROM the VAULT – How to apply Thewlis and Griffin handcuffs 1907
How to apply handcuffs, 1907. Queensland Police Gazette 13 April 1907. Thewlis & Griffith Handcuff – Closed. (From the Queensland Police Museum Collection) Thewlis & Griffith Handcuff – Open....
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Sunday Lecture Series – March 31: Thomas James Heaney: A Queensland Police...
Thomas James Heaney was sworn in as a Queensland police officer on 18 December 1888. He first served at Roma Street police station and in 1894 he was transferred to Woolloongabba. In 1905 after...
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FROM the VAULT: Queensland Police ANZACs: Constable Thomas McGillycuddy (June...
Queensland Police and the Great War Effort, a project by Dr Anastasia Dukova, a policing historian, connects personal, police and war service stories and histories of the Queensland Policemen who left...
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FROM the VAULT: Queensland Police ANZACs: Constable James Kissane (1 April...
James Kissane, The Queenslander 24 June 1916 ( JOL). James Kissane was born on 1 April 1889 in Kilcock Upper, Lissleton, Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland to John Michael and Catherine Cronin (Katie). He...
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