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FROM THE VAULT: Evelyn Hill, trail blazer
L-R Policewomen Roslyn Kelleher, Noala Holman, Evelyn Hill and Sandra Paterson, pose in the drab olive winter uniform,1966. Queensland Police Museum Image PM1812. Evelyn Ivy Hill was born on February...
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FROM THE VAULT: Queen Elizabeth visits Queensland 1954
Since 1867, there have been over fifty visits by a member of the Royal Family to Australia, though only six of those came before 1954. Elizabeth II is the only reigning monarch of Australia to have...
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From the Vault – A short history of police motorcycles
In February 1925 Police Commissioner William Ryan purchased the first police motorcycles – three model Harley-Davidson “Indian” motorcycles with attached sidecars. By late 1925 police motorcycles were...
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SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES: Police Responses to Bushranging
31 October 202111:00am – 12:30pm Police Headquarters200 Roma Street, Brisbane QLD 4000FREE ENTRY – Bookings Essential via Eventbrite The bushrangers of the gold rush era were a varied lot: from poor...
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FROM THE VAULT: Just part of the job…
On April 13, 1978, Senior Constable Fred Richards had finished his shift and had arrived at the Sandgate RSL to join his off duty police mates for a well earned drink. He did not get very far into the...
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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: Pomp & Ceremony
There have been twenty-five Queensland Governors. The first, Sir George Bowen was appointed on December 10, 1859. All of whom, across the last 150 years or so have been called on to attend police...
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FROM the VAULT – Fine Cotton
Police patrol horse race meets to oversee the safety of patrons and ensure laws are being upheld, but one fine August day in 1984 laws were about to be broken at Queensland’s Eagle Farm Racecourse....
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SUNDAY LECTURE: The Modus Operandi Recording System: a common fund of knowledge
28 November 11:00am – 12:30pm Queensland Police Headquarters, 200 Roma Street Speaker: Lisa Jones, QPM Curator Bookings via Eventbrite Watch via livestreamed On 1 February 1935 a system of recording...
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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 “bush ranger”, Senior Constable...
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FROM THE VAULT – James Lawrence Joseph Tobin
October 1921: Members of Rockhampton Police Staff who were present at the presentation of the Certificate of Merit of the Royal Humane Society of Australia by Justice Jameson to Constable James Tobin...
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FROM THE VAULT – Star of Courage: Senior Constable Michael Symes
Michael Francis Symes joined the Queensland Police as Constable 4570 on October 24, 1980. To date he has served at Broadbeach, Gold Coast, City Station, Brisbane CIB, Woolloongabba, Wynnum Traffic,...
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FROM THE VAULT – Star of Courage: Senior Constable Peter Kidd
Peter Grahame John Kidd joined the Queensland Police as Constable 3560 on 29 April 1977. He served at the Traffic Branch, Banyo Station; Brisbane Mobile Patrols; as a member of the Brisbane Task Force...
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Policing Eton
Eton Township ca1880 (JOL Image) The Report of the Commissioner of Police in 1882 mentioned Eton among others as a station to be completed as speedily as possible. Tenders for the erection of police...
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We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Thanks for supporting the Police Museum in 2021. We are hoping that 2022 will be kinder to us. Here is a bit of cuteness to gladden the heart. The son of Sergeant Colin Chick writes out a traffic...
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FROM the VAULT – Deputy Commissioner Thomas Atkinson
It is 36 years ago today, Deputy Commissioner Thomas Sydney Atkinson retired after a long and truly distinguished career in the Queensland Police Force. Commencing as a Cadet on July 16th, 1945, and...
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FROM the VAULT – Lost & Found 1916
At 10am on July 13, 1916, four year old Nicholas Frousheger wandered away from his home about three miles south of Charleville. Nicholas showed most extraordinary stamina for a child of tender years...
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FROM THE VAULT – Brisbane General Strike, 1912
January 2022 marks the 110th anniversary of the 1912 Brisbane General Strike. The strike began when members of the Australian Tramway Employees Association were dismissed when they wore union badges...
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FROM THE VAULT – Quick thinking Constables, 1981
On October 10, 1981, the Brisbane Mobile Patrol unit of Constable Dave Ellis and Constable Jock Rankin, was sent to Ethel Street, Chermside, to check out a report that shots were being fired in a flat...
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FROM THE VAULT – Directing Traffic: a 1926 instructional leaflet
Font and rear pages of the Traffic Signals leaflet put out for the Brisbane Exhibition in 1926. Issued by the motor accessory house Philip Frankel & Co. Ltd. The instructional leaflet on Traffic...
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