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FROM the VAULT – Queensland Police ANZACs: Constable Patrick Joseph Devine...
Patrick Joseph Devine, courtesy of Martina Grady. Source: Niall Brannigan, John Kirwan. Kilkenny Families in the Great War (2012). Patrick Devine was born into a large Roman Catholic family on 17 March...
View ArticleEaster road safety stories – “Never attend another one again”
Unfortunately Easter is a notorious time for road crashes in Queensland. The QPS with the support of other emergency services is currently coordinating a state-wide traffic policing operation designed...
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SUNDAY LECTURE – 11am April 28 – A Crash Course in Forensic Mechanics
Have you ever wondered how police rule out or take into consideration, vehicle faults or mechanical failure when investigating serious and fatal crashes? Garry Ryan and Simon Major from the Queensland...
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FROM the VAULT – Queensland Police ANZACs: Inspector Arthur Albert Bock (10...
Portrait of Arthur Albert Bock on his wedding day. Image PM0792 Courtesy of the Queensland Police Museum. Arthur Albert Bock was born on 10 September 1883 in Bendley, South Australia to Australian-born...
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Special Event – LAW WEEK 13-17 May 2019
Law Week is an annual, national event which aims to foster a better understanding of the role law and justice plays in our society. It occurs between Monday 13 – Friday 17 May 2019. The QPM will...
View ArticlePolice issue urgent warning following QPS phone number used in scam
Detectives from the State Crime Command’s Financial and Cyber Crime Group have issued a warning to Queensland residents about a scam using a Queensland Police Service phone number to legitimise a...
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FROM the VAULT -The battle for Spring Hill
In 1981 Courier-Mail journalist Neil Groom interviewed 83-year-old retired Inspector Arthur Bruce Clark, affectionately known as ‘Nobby’. Detective Acting Sergeant Arthur “Nobby” Clark, 1934. Arthur...
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SUNDAY LECTURE – 11am on May 26 – How Brisbane fought the Spanish Flu in 1919
The 1919 Spanish Flu epidemic was the biggest killer in history and the deadliest disaster Brisbane ever endured. The story is, of course, dramatic and sad. It’s also inspirational: not only in terms...
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Crime and Justice Bus Tour – Saturday 29 June – 9am-3.30pm – 4 places available
Our usual Sunday Lecture in June is being replaced with a Crime and Justice Bus Tour on Saturday, 29 June. This tour will travel from Brisbane to Southport and back to Boggo Road Gaol. It will follow...
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Special Event – QUEENSLAND DAY CELEBRATIONS 3-7 June 2019
Queensland Day is a celebration of Queensland’s birthday and its official separation from New South Wales as an independent colony on 6 June 1859. Legal aspects of our State’s history will be explored...
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FROM the VAULT – Single officer stations
At December 1864, in the first year of operation of the Queensland Police Force, there were 27 ordinary police stations with 151 foot and mounted officers, and 16 native police camps of 136 European...
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FROM the VAULT – Crime Reporting
Since 1864, the writing and typing of official crime reports has been an essential but frustrating aspect of the job for many police officers. Report writing kept officers from hours of patrolling for...
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FROM the VAULT- Driver Training
In 1971, due to the number of accidents involving police vehicles, a Driver Training Wing began operating, to instruct police on car and motorcycle handling and especially alternative means to high...
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FROM the VAULT – Rewan: A Stud Farm for Breeding Police Horses
At the turn of the 20th century the Queensland Police obtained its horses by purchase. In 1904 after Police Commissioner Parry-Okeden urged that the Police Department should breed its own horses, a...
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FROM the VAULT – Foot, Hoof and Wheel
Before motorcars or the motorcycles were in general use, police officers employed other means of getting from A to B. Walking the beat was part of a Police Officer’s rostered duty. The 1869 Rules and...
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Sunday Lecture Series – 28 July – The Fitzgerald Inquiry and Report: 30 years on
The Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct (the Fitzgerald Inquiry; 1987–1989) was established in response to a series of articles on high-level police...
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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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FROM the VAULT: 3…2…1 Lift Off!
Sergeant Edward Creedy on his horse outside Newmarket State School, 1930. PM0729 Courtesy of the Queensland Police Museum. From time to time we find images in the Queensland Police Museum collection...
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FROM the VAULT: Crocodile Attack, 1932
The snared crocodile, thought to be the one that took the little Betty Doherty, is trapped and taken to Halifax by motor lorry so that its stomach contents can be examined for remains of the child....
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FROM the VAULT: Real People…..
The Police Museum’s image collection includes many interesting police related images. Today we show you five of the Curator’s favourites, in chronological order. A SCRUFFY BUNCHQueensland Police...
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