Sign up for road safety: Driving to conditions
This week is Queensland Road Safety Week and together with the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) we’re committing to putting road safety first. Road conditions can change due to a variety of...
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FROM the VAULT – Quick Thinking Police Rescue
Sergeant 2/c Alexander Cochrane (left) and Constable 1/c James Boyle in the act of rescuing a man attempting to jump off the Victoria Bridge on February 8, 1958. Photograph taken by Ray Saunders a...
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FROM the VAULT: How to Capture Bush Rangers
Warning: Readers are advised this article contains an image of an Aboriginal Police Trooper, now deceased. We’re thinking a lull in criminal activity in the Coen area around 1897 is the best...
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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 – Wool Washing Thwarted By Want Of Water
The following was recorded as written by Constable 1/c Michael O’Toole of Wyandra Police Station, in the Charleville District, 114 years ago and by hand in the station letterbook. 9th February 1903 To...
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FROM the VAULT – Murder near Miles
Investigation commenced with an urgent circular to members of the Brisbane Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) on 30 September 1919, from their Inspector Michael O’Sullivan. It read, “A man named...
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FROM the VAULT – Constable Robert John Sands
Constable Robert John Sands was born in 1905 and joined the Queensland Police Force in 1932. With minimal paperwork to refer back to, Constable Sands’ Service History may appear unremarkable, but the...
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SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES: 1896 Pearl Ferry Capsizing
Sunday, 28 February 2021 11:00am to 12:30pm Police HQ, 200 Roma Street, Brisbane QLD 4000 Bookings essential at Eventbrite – get your tickets here FREE entry On 13 February 1896, during major...
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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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SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES: Forensic Imaging Capabilities
Sunday, 28 March 2021 11:00am to 12:30pm Police HQ, 200 Roma Street, Brisbane QLD 4000 Bookings essential at Eventbrite – get your tickets here FREE entry This event will also be livestreamed Senior...
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FROM the VAULT – Shore Patrol Station by R.A. Donovan
Well into the retirement of Superintendent (Grade 2) Ronald Albert Donovan in 1995, he recalled the start of World War II on September 3, 1939, and provided an account of his policing service during...
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SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES: Queensland Police and the Great War
Sunday Lecture Series: Queensland Police and the Great War Sunday, 25 April 2021 11:00am to 12:30pm Police HQ, 200 Roma Street, Brisbane QLD 4000 FREE ENTRY This event will also be livestreamed...
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FROM the VAULT – Silk Yards and a Railway Guard
The stock standard Queensland Police Gazette (QPG) managed to treat readers with a colourful addition on September 24, 1938. A swath of silk fabric in red, yellow, ochre, black and white adorned the...
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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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FROM the VAULT – CoP Norwin William Bauer
A man ahead of his time in 1969, newly appointed Police Commissioner Norwin W. Bauer considered traffic crashes, increasing crime and drug use as the main problems facing police. Norwin Bauer joined...
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OFF SITE Tour of Toowong Cemetery Police Graves
OFF SITE TOUR of Toowong Cemetery Police Graves Sunday, 30 May 2021 10:30 – 12:30 Mid-tour Morning Tea Provided BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL via EVENTBRITE The Friends of Toowong Cemetery is a voluntary...
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FROM THE VAULT: A mug only a mother could love
Glass Plate Negatives, introduced by Englishman Frederick Scott Archer in 1851, were the first widely available photographic negatives and offered sharper images and faster exposures than the calotype...
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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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SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES: The Ether Man
Police scour Brisbane for clues of Ether Man 27 June 202111:00am – 12:30pm Police Headquarters200 Roma StreetBrisbane QLD 4000FREE ENTRY – Bookings Essential via Eventbrite This lecture is not...
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