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Sunday Lecture – Little Girl Lost 1964: Doreen Jean Lambert
29 May 2022 11:00 – 12:30 Police Headquarters, 200 Roma Street, Brisbane FREE ENTRY Bookings via Eventbrite or email museum@police.qld.gov.au This lecture will be Livestreamed On Saturday 17 October...
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FROM THE VAULT – A straightforward career
Portrait of Constable James Patrick Buckley, wearing khaki country police uniform, with sword, ammunition belt and broad brim hat with one side held up with a brass Lion’s head. James Patrick Buckley...
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FROM THE VAULT – When the Maroons Wore Blue
Back Row: Eric Deveney, Eddie Otago, Col Cowley, Jack Otago, Roy Schultz, George Day, ‘Bluey’ Millar, Athol Hogan, Felix Creedy. Front Row: Terry Thomsen, Ivan Clerk, Jack Clark, Eddie Brosnan,...
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SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES: Fingerprints – A unique identification method
Sunday, 26 June 202211:00am to 12:30pm Police HQ,200 Roma Street,Brisbane QLD 4000 FREE ENTRY Book via Eventbrite or email museum@police.qld.gov.au Will also be recorded to Livestream Matching...
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FROM THE VAULT – Investigating Traffic Crashes
Constable Leo Glen Lucht (on right) at a car accident at intersection of Ipswich and Annerley Road on his first night on duty at Woolloongabba, 1953. (PM0140) Prior to a formalised unit being formed,...
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FROM THE VAULT – Robert Stewart Christie – a very lucky man
Robert Stewart Christie Robert Christie was born in Forfar, Scotland in 1882. He joined the Queensland Police Force as Constable 1461 on July 26, 1911. On January 21, 1913, Christie married Elizabeth...
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FROM THE VAULT – A History of Police Radio
The history of police radio illustrates that good communications are essential for efficient and effective policing. In 1933 the Queensland Police Union commented in its Journal via cartoon, on the...
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2022 SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES
The Ocean Island Murders, 1949 Speaker: Lisa Jones, Curator, Queensland Police Museum 31 July 11:00am-12.30pm Bookings essential via Eventbrite or email museum@police.qld.gov.au Ocean Island Homicide...
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FROM the VAULT – The Narella Street Tragedy
At about 7:30 am on 18 February 1957, Constable First Class John Christopher “Jack” Strickfuss was dressed for work and finishing his breakfast. A big man, Jack had joined the Queensland Police Force...
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FROM the VAULT – Policing Mungindi during the flood of 1921
In 1921 the border town of Mungindi on the Barwon River, which divides Queensland and New South Wales, was the scene of a flood. Acting Sergeant Reynolds from Queensland’s Mungindi Police Station had...
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FROM the VAULT – Leyburn Police Station
Prior to inauguration of the Queensland Police Force in 1864, Sub-Inspector William Harris with Constables Henry Harris, John Brophy and John Broderick policed Leyburn. The policemen served from...
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Sunday Lecture Series 28 August
A tour of Toowong Cemetery visiting the graves of Queensland Police officers. This tour is running in conjunction with The Friends of Toowong Cemetery. Bookings by Eventbrite only. Only 30 spaces...
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FROM the VAULT – Constable O’Driscoll and the Battle of Merivale Street
The battle, a fierce and violent display of street fighting, was the highlight of a series of processions, meetings and riots held by left-wing militants and Russian Bolsheviks on the one hand and...
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FROM the VAULT – Mysterious Explosion at the Brisbane CIB, 1927
On 14 August 1927, the Criminal Investigation Branch building was rocked by a violent explosion in a property room. ‘The roar of the discharge was heard for miles around, being audible in the...
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FROM the VAULT – Brisbane’s “Scotland Yard”, 1864-1964
The Detective Office began on 1 December 1864, 11 months after the inauguration of the Queensland Police Force on January 1. Samuel Joseph Lloyd was placed as the officer in charge of the new branch....
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FROM the VAULT – From Brisbane to Bulimba then bush
Sergeant Vincent James Collins never used to chase the hoons as they raced their cars and motorbikes through the streets of Landsborough. He didn’t need to. He knew where they lived and would simply...
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FROM the VAULT – Murder of ‘Stiletto Jean’ Morris
Jean Morris, aged about 19 years, was found dead in her bed in a small two-roomed galvanised iron house, in Queen St, Ayr, which she alone occupied. The body was attired in a silk nightdress. (QPG 15...
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FROM the VAULT: Sunday Lecture Series
Who Killed Betty Shanks: Three Perspectives Sunday 25 September 10:00am – 12:30pm Tickets via Eventbrite This event will be livestreamed 2002 marks the 70th anniversary of this shocking unsolved...
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FROM the VAULT – A Walk Down Memory Lane
After 45 years, five months and five days, Queensland Police Employee Number 1169194 has left the building. Prior to her exit, Lorrayne Stone provided a thought provoking piece on her civilian...
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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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